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Matt Welsh
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Full name | Matthew James Welsh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Melbourne, Victoria | 18 November 1976||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Melbourne Vicentre Australian Institute of Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
{#REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other |- style="background-color:#eeeeee;text-align:center;" class="adr" ! colspan="3" | Competitor for Australia |- style="background-color:#cccccc;text-align:center;" ! colspan="3" | Olympic Games |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2000 Sydney || 100 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2000 Sydney || 4×100 m medley |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Bronze medal – third place|| 2000 Sydney || 200 m backstroke |- style="background-color:#cccccc;text-align:center;" ! colspan="3" | World Championships (LC) |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 1998 Perth || 4×100 m medley |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2001 Fukuoka || 100 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2001 Fukuoka || 4×100 m medley |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2003 Barcelona || 50 m butterfly |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2007 Melbourne || 4×100 m medley |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2003 Barcelona || 50 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2003 Barcelona || 100 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2005 Montreal || 50 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Bronze medal – third place|| 2001 Fukuoka || 50 m backstroke |- style="background-color:#cccccc;text-align:center;" ! colspan="3" | World Championships (SC) |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 1999 Hong Kong || 4×100 m medley |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2002 Moscow || 50 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2002 Moscow || 100 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2006 Shanghai || 50 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2006 Shanghai || 100 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2006 Shanghai || 50 m butterfly |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2006 Shanghai || 4×100 m medley |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 1999 Hong Kong || 100 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2004 Indianapolis || 50 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2004 Indianapolis || 100 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2004 Indianapolis || 200 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2004 Indianapolis || 4×100 m medley |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Bronze medal – third place|| 1999 Hong Kong || 50 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Bronze medal – third place|| 2006 Shanghai || 200 m backstroke |- style="background-color:#cccccc;text-align:center;" ! colspan="3" | Pan Pacific Championships |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 1999 Sydney || 100 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2002 Yokohama || 200 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2002 Yokohama || 4×100 m medley |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Bronze medal – third place|| 2006 Victoria || 4×100 m medley |- style="background-color:#cccccc;text-align:center;" ! colspan="3" | Commonwealth Games |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2002 Manchester || 50 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2002 Manchester || 100 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2002 Manchester || 4×100 m medley |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2006 Melbourne || 4×100 m medley |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2006 Melbourne || 100 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2006 Melbourne || 50 m butterfly |- style="background-color:#cccccc;text-align:center;" ! colspan="3" | Goodwill Games |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2001 Brisbane || 100 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Gold medal – first place|| 2001 Brisbane || 4×100 m medley |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" |Silver medal – second place|| 2001 Brisbane || 50 m backstroke |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"
|Silver medal – second place|| 2001 Brisbane || 200 m backstroke
#REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other Matthew James Welsh, OAM (born 18 November 1976) is an Australian swimmer who is the former world champion in the backstroke and butterfly. He took two golds in 50-metre butterfly and 50-metre backstroke, during one hour, at the World Championships in Shanghai 2006. Welsh retired from professional swimming in March 2008 when he failed to secure a place in the team for the Beijing Olympics.[1] ContentsEarly yearsWelsh started swimming in his final years at Scotch College, Melbourne and moved into competitive swimming in 1995 after leaving school at the age of eighteen. He trained under coach Ian Pope at the Melbourne Vicentre Club.[citation needed] His first big break came in 1998 at the world swimming championships in Perth, Western Australia with a gold in the 4x100-metre medley relay. World and Olympic accomplishments
At 31 and after 11 years on the Australian Swim Team, Welsh was unable to beat the younger generation at the trials and was not selected to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Swimming historyWelsh has won several world championship titles in both backstroke and butterfly. He first broke the Australian record in the 100 metre backstroke in 1998. He also won more Australian swimming titles than any swimmer in history, claiming his 50th win at the 2006 Australian titles in Brisbane in December 2006. Personal lifeWelsh married Lauren Newton, the daughter of Bert Newton, on 4 November 2006. They are parents to a son Sam, born January 2008 and two daughters, Eva, born May 2009 and Lola, born March 2012. Awards and honours
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