Tag: Christian Sprenger
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Christian Sprenger on 2009 World Aquatic Championships
Swimmer Christian Sprenger talks about his world record feat at the World Aquatic Championships in Rome in 2009 as his personal defining moment in sport. More Defining Moments in Australian History
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Christian Sprenger on the Sydney 2000 men’s freestyle relay
Swimmer Christian Sprenger picks the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay at the Sydney Olympics as his major defining moment in sport. More Defining Moments in Australian History
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Interview with Christian Sprenger, Team Speedo athlete
Find out more about Team Speedo’s breaststroke sprint star, Christian Sprenger, as we grill the Aussie swimmer on The Simpsons, his favourite sports away from swimming, and where in the world he loves to swim for pleasure.
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Sprenger and Coutts could pull plug on career after poor results at #AusChamps15
Australian veterans Christian Sprenger and Alicia Coutts may both retire after the Olympic medallists failed to make the Dolphins team last night in their pet events. Coutts wanted to retire 12 weeks ago due to a persistent shoulder injury that requires surgery while Sprenger has battled back off just six weeks training following shoulder surgery…
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Network Ten to Live Stream the Australian Swimming Championships
For the first time, fans will be able to follow their swimming heroes live on their digital devices with Network Ten’s industry-leading digital platform, tenplay, set to live-stream all the finals action each night of the 2015 Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Championships. Ten Sport’s Mel McLaughlin and Lachy Reid, along with expert commentator Nicole Livingstone,…
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Pictionary #AusChamps15
Pictionary with Cate and Bronte Campbell, Christian Sprenger, Tommaso D’Orsogna and Jayden Hadler
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Christian Sprenger eyes Rio after tough year
Reigning world-champion breaststroker Christian Sprenger is determined to shake off a major shoulder injury in time for what will likely be his last Olympic Games. The 28-year-old fell apart at Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, failing to make the 100m breaststroke final and swimming three seconds under his personal best. He blamed shoulder issues, which had started…
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Australian swimmers slam media for continued focus on Olympic debacle
Australian Commonwealth Games swimmers have reacted strongly to repeated questions about the team’s London Olympic Games campaign, which was notable for disappointing performances in the pool and bad behaviour out of it. However, senior squad member and 100-metre breaststroke world champion Christian Sprenger thinks while it was “bizarre that they still bring that up” there…
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Christian Sprenger had an inauspicious start to life in the pool
The 28-year-old breaststroke king initially hated the water so much that he was kicked out of his private learn-to-swim lessons, given a full Ârefund and told to look at other sports. “I don’t remember, I was very young — three or four — but the story goes it was a private learn-to-swim pool in someone’s…