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Ian James Thorpe AM (born 13 October 1982) is an Australian retired swimmer who specialised in freestyle, but also competed in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the second most won by any Australian after fellow swimmer Emma McKeon.
4 days ago · Paris 2024. She is poised to equal Ian Thorpe’s Olympic record. Mum says she is still due more recognition. Tom Decent. August 2, 2024 — 3.30pm. Normal text size. Larger text size. Very large ...
Jun 21, 2024 · Ian Thorpe (born October 13, 1982, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian athlete, who was the most successful swimmer in that country’s history, accumulating five Olympic gold medals and 11 world championship titles between 1998 and 2004.
Racing in the 400m freestyle, he won the gold medal by breaking his own world record. An hour after this triumph, Thorpe swam the anchor leg for Australia in the 4x100m freestyle relay. He came from behind to barely beat Gary Hall, Jr. of the United States in a thrilling finish.
Ian Thorpe retired twice, first in 2006 at the age of 24, then in 2012 after he failed to make the Australian team for the London Games, yet those divergent emotions about his chosen sport never go away. At last month’s Olympic trials in Brisbane, he was an expert caller for Channel Nine but could feel familiar tensions on the pool deck.
Jul 29, 2024 · Tracey Menzies-Stegbauer recalls what she told Ian Thorpe before he took out gold in the men's 400m freestyle at Athens, two days before he beat Pieter van den Hoogenband, then America's Michael Phelps and fellow Australian Grant Hackett in the 'Race of the Century'.
Sep 30, 2020 · Australia's Ian Thorpe is quite simply a swimming legend. After becoming a world champion at the age of 15, he won the first three of his five Olympic gold medals as a 17-year-old at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
