Eamon Sullivan

Eamon Sullivan ( born August 30, 1985 in Perth, Western Australia ) is an Australian swimmer. He specializes in the short freestyle distances.

Career

His international debut Sullivan at the Olympic Games in 2004, when he finished in sixth place with the Australian 4x100 m freestyle relay. Two years later, Sullivan won the silver medal in the 4x100 m freestyle relay and gold in the 4x100 m medley relay at the Commonwealth Games 2006.

At the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, he also won the Australian 4x100 m medley relay gold. About 100 m freestyle Sullivan still won a bronze medal. In addition, he still reached two fifth places in the 4x100 m freestyle relay and the 50m freestyle.

In February 2008, he applied to the regional championships of New South Wales in Sydney with 21.56 seconds set a new world record in the 50m freestyle on. He improved so that the seven -year-old world record of Alexander Popov 0.08 s Five days after the Frenchman Alain Bernard Sullivan's record had improved by 0.06 s he won in March 2008 at the Australian Championships in Sydney with 21.41 seconds the world record back. Just a day later, he could again improve on the record 21.28 seconds.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he set the 100m freestyle as the starting float of the Australian 4x100 m freestyle relay, with whom he won the bronze medal in 47.24 seconds to set a new world record, but the with after less than 48 hours of Alain Bernard 47.20 s was broken in the first semi-final of the 100 m individual men. Sullivan claimed the world record directly in the subsequent semi-final run with 47.05 s back. In the final he had to give Bernard but was defeated and won the silver medal. Another silver medal in the relay, he reached over 4x100 m medley.

Sullivan won the gold medal in the 4x100 -meter freestyle relay and the 4x100 -meter medley relay and bronze in the 100 m freestyle at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

Personal best

  • 50m freestyle - 21.28 s ( March 28, 2008 in Sydney)
  • 100m freestyle - 47.05 s (August 13, 2008 in Beijing)
  • 50m freestyle - 21.31 s
  • 100m freestyle - 46.82 s
Summer Olympic Games 2006 Commonwealth Games 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships List of world records in swimming Alexander Popov (swimmer)
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