Frederick Lane

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Frederick Lane
Medal record

Men's swimming
Representing Australia
Olympic Games
Gold	1900 Paris	200 m freestyle
Gold	1900 Paris	200 m obstacle

Frederick Claude Vivian Lane (2 February 1880 – 14 May 1969) was an Australian swimmer.

Lane, from Manly, New South Wales, attended high school at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, and was the first Australian to represent his country in swimming at the Olympic Games, although he was actually a part of the British team when he competed at the 1900 Paris Games and won two gold medals.

He first won the 200 m freestyle, clearly beating the Hungarian Zoltán Halmay. His second final was just 45 minutes later, the discontinued 200 m obstacle race, where he beat Otto Wahle from Austria.

Lane, who had won national titles in Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain, was also the first swimmer to finish the 100 yards (91 m) in less than a minute, clocking 59.6 s in 1902.

It was rumored that Lane, by the end of his career, swore never to swim again.

Lane, standing at right, with Manly Swimming Club teammates

References

Fred Lane at Sports Reference

v t e Olympic Champions in Men's 200 m Freestyle

1900: Frederick Lane 1904 (220 yards): Charles Daniels 1968: Michael Wenden 1972: Mark Spitz 1976: Bruce Furniss 1980: Sergey Kopliakov 1984: Michael Gross 1988: Duncan Armstrong 1992: Yevgeny Sadovyi 1996: Danyon Loader 2000: Pieter van den Hoogenband 2004: Ian Thorpe 2008: Michael Phelps 2012: Yannick Agnel

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Persondata
Name	Lane, Frederick
Alternative names
Short description	Australian swimmer
Date of birth	2 February 1880
Place of birth
Date of death	14 May 1969
Place of death

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