Brenton Rickard
Brisbane, Queensland | |
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
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Weight | 92 kg (203 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Breaststroke |
Club | Brothers |
Coach | Vince Raleigh |
Medal record |
Brenton Scott Rickard
In 2009, he was Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year.[3]
Olympic Games
He arrived in Beijing as a medal contender and a serious threat for the gold medal in all three of his events. He set Australian, Commonwealth and Oceanic records, capturing silver medals in the 200-metre breaststroke and 4×100-metre medley relay, and finished 5th in the 100-metre breaststroke.
- Beijing Olympics in Beijing, China:
FINA World Championships
Rickard's first World Championships were a good one, consistently capturing medals in all of his pet events. No Australian records were set, however his status in the world rankings leapfrogged.
- FINA World Championships 2007 in Melbourne, Australia:
In the final of the 100-metre breaststroke, Rickard won the gold medal and surpassed the old world record of 58.91 held by Kosuke Kitajima with a time of 58.58.[4]
- FINA World Championships 2009 in Rome, Italy:
Career best times
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Doping Allegations
In 2020, the IOC began proceedings in the Court of Arbitration of Sport to void Rickard's results from the 2012 London Olympics[5] after his urine samples from that competition tested positive for furosemide, a banned diuretic. If the IOC's findings are upheld, six Australian swimmers were to be stripped of their bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m medley,[6] in which Rickard swam the breaststroke leg of the heat. The proceedings were withdrawn on August 24, 2021.[7]
See also
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- List of world records in swimming
- List of Commonwealth records in swimming
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 100 metres breaststroke
References
- ^ "Results – Tuesday 5 October". BBC Sport. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
- ^ "Brenton Rickard – Biography". Australian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2008.
- ^ Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year Archived 26 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- The Associated Press. 27 July 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2009.[dead link]
- ^ Sport, Guardian (6 November 2020). "Brenton Rickard: Australian Olympic swimmer reveals positive drugs test eight years after London Games". The Guardian.
- ^ "Australia has never lost an Olympic medal to drugs. That might be about to change". 7 November 2020.
- ^ "IOC drops doping case against Australian swimmer Brenton Rickard". ABC News. 24 August 2021.
External links
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- Brenton Rickard at World Aquatics
- Brenton Rickard at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Brenton Rickard at Olympics.com
- Brenton Rickard at Olympedia
- Brenton Rickard at Commonwealth Games Australia
- Brenton Rickard at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Brenton Rickard at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Brenton Rickard at IMDb