Eamon Sullivan
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Eamon Sullivan, (born, 30 August 1985 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian Sprint Swimmer. He is the current world record holder for the 50 m Freestyle breaking the men's 50 metres Freestyle World Record in a time of 21.28 seconds at Telstra Australian Olympic Trials at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.
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[edit] Career [1]
In April 2002 at Sydney Australian Age Championships , Eamon won the 50 m Freestyle Gold Medal and a Silver Medal in 100 m at his age group, and swam for Australia at Trans Tasman series with no dramatic result.
In April 2003 at Brisbane Fisher & Paykel Australian Age Championships he won gold in 100 m free in 51.34 s and a Bronze Medal in 4×100 m freestyle.
In April 2004 he stood 2nd for the semi-final of the 100 m freestyle at the 2004 Olympic Trials and then he was selected for the Australian Olympic Team by finishing fourth in the final. In April the same year he captured another gold in 100 m free and a silver in 50 m free at Perth Fisher & Paykel Australian Age Championships.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Eamon as the youngest male in the Australian Olympic Team improved his PB (Personal Best) in the heat time that gained him a block in the final of the 4×100 m freestyle, in which Australia came sixth.
In July 2005 he was sidelined with a hip injury and missed the World Aquatics Championships in Canada.
In August 2005 at the Melbourne Australian Short Course Championships, he won his first national title in the 100 m Freestyle in 47.91 s scoring the fifth fastest time by an Australian and a bronze medal in the 50 m freestyle in 22.08 s, and was selected on to the Australian Team to compete at the World Short Course Championships in China in April 2006.
In March 2006 he won gold in 4×100 m medley and silver in 4×100 m freestyle at Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.
In Dec 2006 at the Brisbane Australian National Championships he broke the 50 m national record in 22.00 s and became the fastset swimmer Australia had ever seen.
In March 2007 at the 12th FINA World Championships in Melbourne he added up to his progress as a quality sprinter by gaining his first individual medal at a World Championship, placing third in 100 m free (only 0.04 s behind the two gold medalists who dead heated) and fifth in 50 m freestyle. He also showed a great freestyle performance in achievement of the Australia's ninth gold medal in 4×100 m Medley Relay in a time of 3:34.93 in front of Japan and Russia.
In July 2007 Sullivan had an alerting win in 50 m free at the Santa Clara International Invitational Grand Prix in California in 22.30 s. In the same month he clocked 21.62 s to slash 0.07 s off Brett Hawke's seven year old 50 m Short Course Australian record at Telstra Grand Prix2 in Canberra. He set another National Record at FINA/ARENA World Cup at SOPAC in the heats of the 100 m freestyle clocking a time of 47.29 s shaving 0.26 s of his previous best set in Canberra earlier that year.
In February 2008 he broke the 50 m Freestyle World Record and 100 m freestyle Commonwealth Record in NSW Open Championships in Sydney.
On 26 March 2008 he swam the second-fastest time in history with time of 47.52 in the mens 100m Freestyle final at the 2008 Australian Olympic Trials at SOPAC.
On 27 March 2008, he broke the world record again, going 21.41 in the Mens 50m Freestyle and a day later he even improved his record to 21.28s.[2]
Eamon has also sustained several injuries throughout his career. He has struggled with hip operations and shoulder sprain.
At the Olympic Games in Bejing Sullivan will swim the 50m and 100m freestyle and the 4x100m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay.
[edit] World record
Australian Eamon Sullivan became the fastest swimmer in history after he broke the world 50 m freestyle record at the 2008 NSW Open Championships at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. He timed 21.56 to slash 0.08 off the 21.64 set by the Russian Alexander Popov at Moscow in June 2000. However his time was beaten to 21.50 by French Alain Bernard on 23 March 2008, He significantly improved his last PB standing at 22.00 s. He declared he had had positive feelings of being in a good form for the race earlier on. Shortly after, he swam for West Coast[disambiguation needed] club in the 4×100 m freestyle Relay and clocked 48.11 s, cutting 0.07 off Michael Klim record set for Australian relay at the 2000 Olympics. His time was also a Commonwealth record, knocking 0.06 s off the previous time gained by South African Roland Schoeman.
On 27 March 2008 at Australian Olympic Trials at the same venue he regained his shot as the 50m freestyle world record holder with a time of 21.41s, then broke his own record a day later with 21.28s.[3]
[edit] Personal
Sullivan is currently dating fellow Australian swimmer and individual world record holder Stephanie Rice.
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Preceded by Alexander Popov |
Men's 50 metre freestyle world record holder (long course) February 17, 2008 – March 23, 2008 |
Succeeded by Alain Bernard |
| Preceded by Alain Bernard |
Men's 50 metre freestyle world record holder (long course) March 27, 2008 |
Succeeded by incumbent |
[edit] External links
- Videos & Results on SwimPassion.net
[edit] References
- ^ *Eamon Sullivan. Swimming Australia. Retrieved on 2008-02-18.
- ^ *Sullivan smashes 50m world record. ABC (27 March 2008). Retrieved on 2008-03-27.
- ^ *Sullivan breaks 50m freestyle world record. Swimming Australia (17 February 2008). Retrieved on 2008-02-18.
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