Eamon Sullivan
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| Surname: | Eamon Sullivan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | West coast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | August 30, 1985 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Perth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.89 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 78 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eamon Sullivan (born August 30, 1985 in Perth , Western Australia ) is a former Australian swimmer. He specialized in the short freestyle distances .
Career
Sullivan made his international debut at the 2004 Olympics , when he finished sixth in the Australian 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. Two years later, Sullivan won silver in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and gold in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 2006 Commonwealth Games .
At the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne , he also won gold with the Australian 4 × 100 m individual medley relay. In the 100 m freestyle, Sullivan also won a bronze medal. He also reached two fifth places with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and over 50 m freestyle.
In February 2008 he set a new world record in the 50 m freestyle at the regional championships of New South Wales in Sydney with 21.56 seconds . He improved Alexander Popov's seven-year-old world record by 0.08 s. Five days after the Frenchman Alain Bernard Sullivan's record improved by 0.06 s, he regained the world record in March 2008 at the Australian Championships in Sydney with 21.41 seconds. Just one day later, he was able to improve the record again to 21.28 seconds.
At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he set a new world record in 47.24 seconds in the 100 m freestyle as the starting swimmer of the Australian 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, with which he also won the bronze medal, but Alain set it after less than 48 hours Bernard was broken with 47.20 s in the first semi-final of the men's 100 m individual. Sullivan won the world record back in the following semi-final with 47.05 seconds. In the final he had to admit defeat to Bernard and won the silver medal. He achieved another silver medal with the relay over 4 × 100 m individual medley.
Sullivan won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and with the 4 × 100 m individual relay relay as well as the bronze medal in the 100 m freestyle.
After Sullivan won the 50 meter freestyle at the Australian Championships in 2014 and thus qualified for the Commonwealth Games, he had to end his career in July of the same year due to a shoulder injury.
Personal best
- Long track
- 50 m freestyle - 21.28 s (March 28, 2008 in Sydney )
- 100 m freestyle - 47.05 s (August 13, 2008 in Beijing )
- Short course
- 50 m freestyle - 21.31 s
- 100 m freestyle - 46.82 p
Web links
- Eamon Sullivan in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Sullivan, Eamon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perth , Western Australia , Australia |