Full name Brenton Scott Rickard Club Brothers Height 1.94 m Coach Vince Raleigh Weight 92 kg | Name Brenton Rickard Spouse Kata Mercer Role Breaststroke swimmer Siblings Nathan Rickard | |
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Born 19 October 1983 (age 40) ( 1983-10-19 ) Brisbane, Queensland Parents Mark Rickard, Collette Rickard Similar People Christian Sprenger, Hayden Stoeckel, Andrew Lauterstein, Eamon Sullivan, Matt Targett | ||
Brenton rickard
Brenton Scott Rickard (born 19 October 1983) is a retired breaststroke swimmer from Australia. He emerged at the international level in 2006, swimming at the Commonwealth games. He has captured multiple Olympic and World Championship medals, as well as world and Commonwealth records. During this period he was coached by Vince Raleigh.
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- Brenton rickard
- Youth performance squad interview brenton rickard
- Olympic Games
- FINA World Championships
- References
In 2009, he was Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year.
Youth performance squad interview brenton rickard
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.
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.
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.