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Brett Hawke Profile |
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Birth Date:February 6, 1975
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Birth Place: Melbourne, Australia
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Birth Name: Brett Hawke
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Biography |
Brett Hawke, born February 6, 1975 in Melbourne Vicentre, is
an Australian swimmer.
Australia's fastest man, Brett Hawke, continued his reign as
Australia's premier sprinter at the 2005 Telstra Trials with
convincing victories in both the 50m freestyle and 50m
butterfly events.
His freestyle win followed on from a career best performance
in the 50m at the 2004 Athens Olympics where he broke the
Australian record, swimming 22.07 in a scintillating semi
final performance, before clocking 22.18 and finishing 7th
in the final.
He had qualified for his second Olympic Games after taking
out the 50 metre freestyle at the 2004 Telstra Olympic Team
Selection Trials.
Brett won a sizzling final in 22.37 to regain his national
title from Ashley Callus by just 0.02 to cement his place on
the team.
The oldest member of the 2003 Australian Swimming team,
Hawke finished seventh in the 50 metre freestyle at his
second World Championships - this time in Barcelona.
An Australian team leader, Hawke also had a consistent year
in the pool in 2002 making a great Commonwealth Games debut
in Manchester taking silver in his favoured 50m freestyle
event after being touched out for the gold by the narrowest
of margins - 0.01.
The same year Brett went on to the Pan Pacific Championships
where he won bronze in the 50 metre freestyle and was a
semi-finalist in the 100 metre event.
Previously a finalist at the 2001 World Championships in the
50 metre freestyle, a pure sprinter who, after returning
from a successful college career in the US at Auburn,
Alabama, where he won nine NCAA titles, has continued to
excel in his pet one-lap long course specialty.
Brett finished 13th in the one lap dash at the 2000
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