Hayden Stoeckel

Hayden Stoeckel ( born August 10, 1984 in Renmark ) is an Australian backstroke swimmer.

Career

Hayden Stoeckel takes for the Norwood Swimming Club. Internationally, he competes for Australia since the Pan Pacific Championships in Victoria in 2006. There he accomplished over the 200 - m- back - haul it to the final, where he was fifth. The international breakthrough came in 2007 came at the World Championships in Melbourne in more detail a piece. Although he retired about 50 m and 200 m already in the heats and 100m backstroke in the semifinals, but he was part of the 4x100m medley relay that won the gold medal. However, Stoeckel was not only used in the heats, in the final.

For distances 100 m and 200 m backstroke, the Australians for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing could qualify. On the shorter distance Stoeckel could coincide with the Russians Arkadi Wjattschanin win the bronze medal behind Americans Aaron Peirsol and Matt Grevers. Also about 200 meters he reached the final and finished sixth. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi Stoeckel swam the 50m backstroke at the second place.