Full name Neil Agius Name Neil Agius National team Malta Height 1.68 m | Sport Swimming Weight 65 kg Coach Dave Haller Strokes Freestyle swimming | |
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Born 6 June 1986 (age 37) ( 1986-06-06 ) | ||
Neil Agius (born June 6, 1986) is a Maltese former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events. He held three Maltese records each in the 400, 800, and 1500 m freestyle until one of them was broken by Edward Caruana Dingli in 2011.
Agius qualified for the men's 400 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA. He broke a Maltese record and posted his entry time of 4:21.24 from the Easter International Swim Meet in Msida. As part of his preparations for the Games, Agius attended a 6-week training camp under the guidance of Dave Heller, who coached for the Cardiff Swimming Club. On the first day of the Games, Agius placed forty-sixth from the morning's prelims. Swimming in heat one, he rounded out a field of seven swimmers to last place with a slowest time of 4:22.14, less than a tenth of a second (0.10) off his record.