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About Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe’s achievements in the water are nothing short of phenomenal. Ian’s professional approach to swimming, his ability to deliver under pressure and his humble attitude and integrity has earned him praise from his peers, the public and world leaders.
Ian has broken 22 world records, has won three gold and two silver medals at his first Olympic Games and two gold, one silver and one bronze at the recent 2004 Athens Olympics and in doing so has become Australia's greatest ever Olympian.
He has won 11 World Championship titles (the most ever), ten Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine Pan Pacific titles. Ian’s achievements have also given him international celebrity status.
Ian has been the promotional face of international events and the recipient of dozens of outstanding awards in Australia, France, China, USA and Japan. The IAAF awarded him the 2001 American International Athlete Trophy as The World’s Most Outstanding Athlete, in 2002 he was voted by the Foreign Press as the best representative of Australian culture, attitude and ideals, and was awarded the 2002 Australian Face Abroad Award.
He has also received the 2003 Outstanding Male Athlete for the 24th Commonwealth Sports Awards, Sydney’s Greatest Ever Male Sports Star as voted by readers of The Daily Telegraph, and also the 2003 Telstra Australian Swimmer of the Year (named with Grant Hackett) for the fifth consecutive year.
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