Tag: Grant Hackett
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Australian Olympic Swim Coach Ian Pope | Inside With Brett Hawke
Ian Pope is the Head Coach of the Melbourne Swimming Club. He is one of the most successful swimming coaches in the World having coached swimmers to over 70 medals at the Olympics, World Champs, and Commonwealth Games. Including Matt Welsh, Michael Klim, Giaan Rooney, Grant Hackett, Marieke Guerher, Matthew Targett, Patrick Murphy, Koti Ngawati,…
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Swimming Olympian Grant Hackett Takes Plunge for Good Cause | Today Show Australia
Australian swimming Olympian Grant Hackett has accepted to take part in CEO Dare to Cure, an initiative where CEOs and business leaders gather across the country to raise money to help cure childhood cancer.
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2021 European Short-Course Swimming Championships, Kazan (RUS) – Day 6, Summary
WR for Shymanovich and the Dutch, ER for Paltrinieri, Sjostrom grabs 4th gold The 25th-anniversary edition of the European Short-Course Swimming Championships couldn’t have ended in a more festive way: records fell in succession. First Ilya Shymanovich from Belorussia equaled the world record in the 50m breast, then Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri smashed the 800m free…
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Alan Jones Speaks With Australian Olympic Greats Marlene Mathews and Grant Hackett | Sky News Australia
Sky News host Alan Jones has spoken to Australian Olympic greats Marlene Mathews and Grant Hackett – reflecting on their experiences and achievements at past Olympics.
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Australian Swim Trials for Tokyo Olympics Kick Off | 9 News Australia
Swimming legends Grant Hackett and Giaan Rooney have named some of Australia’s Olympic hopefuls before the Tokyo 2020 swim trials kick off. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2noaGhv Get more breaking news at: https://bit.ly/2nobVgF
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Inside with Brett Hawke: Bill Kirby
Bill Kirby is an Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer from Australia. He was part of the 4×200 Free Relay that won in front of the home crowd at the Sydney Games. The Australia team, with Kirby on each of them, broke that relay’s World Record 3 different times (1998, 2000, 2001). Bill has recently moved back…
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Grant Hackett’s World Record at Montreal 2005 | Fina World Championships
World Record Flashback! At the 2005 FINA World Championships in Montreal, distance legend Grant Hackett from Australia ends one of the most enduring World Records in history and eclipses Ian Thorpe’s mark in the 800m Free, in a time of 7:38.65. In addition to this, he also claimed another two Gold medals in the 400m…
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‘Picking a needle out of a haystack’: The untold story of Grant Hackett’s golden moment
“Before the race, I always used to look up at my mum and dad, and give a bit of nod or a wave to them. “I couldn’t find them before that race – it was just so jam-packed. There was 17 or 18,000 people around this small 50 metre pool. “As soon as I won,…
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Inside with Brett Hawke: Grant Hackett
Brett speaks with friend and Australian distance ace, Grant Hackett.