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About Susie O'Neill
One of Australia's most successful swimmers ever, Susie O'Neill holds a record 35 Australian titles, eight Olympic medals and a string of victories at international level.
She is Australia's only female world record holder, after breaking Mary T Meagher's 19 year old record in the 200m butterfly. The first Australian female swimming Olympic gold medallist since 1980, Susie is also the first Australian female ever to win the 200m butterfly.
Susie's career took off at the 1990 Commonwealth games with gold and silver medals. Incredibly, Susie never came home without a medal from any international competition, a streak stretching from 1990 to 2000.
Susie came of age at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, a gold, silver and bronze medal, she was Australia's most outstanding Olympic performer since Shane Gould in 1972. At Sydney 2000 Susie affirmed herself as one of Australia's all time greats.
One gold and three silver, Susie has eight Olympic medals, equalling Dawn Fraser's Australian record of the biggest medal aggregate. At the closing of the Games, Susie was officially appointed by the IOC as one of a number of new delegates who are recent Olympians.
With nothing left to prove in the pool on the international stage, Susie retired from competitive swimming and will now set about instilling some of her champion qualities into the Olympic movement and the wider community.
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