WILSON Matthew

Australia
Swimming
8 Dec 1998
22
Male
PENRITH, NSW
 
Australia
SYDNEY, NSW
 
Australia

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
SWM Swimming Men's 100m Breaststroke  
Men's 200m Breaststroke  

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Men's 100m Breaststroke - Heat 6
Finished
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Men's 200m Breaststroke - Heat 5
Finished
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Men's 200m Breaststroke Semifinal 1
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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World Championships
YearLocation50Breast100Breast200Breast4x100Medley M4x100Medley X
2019Gwangju, KOR-SF (59.26)2nd (2:06.68)5th (3:30.42)1st (3:39.08)
2017Budapest, HUNH (27.69)-8th (2:10.37)H (3:33.91)2nd

Pan Pacific Championships
YearLocation100Breast200Breast
2018Tokyo, JPN6th (59.83)3rd (2:08.22)


Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final
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Matt (Instagram profile, 14 Apr 2021; swimswam.com, 08 Feb 2019)
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Supporting Australian rugby league team Cronulla Sharks. (foxsports.com.au, 25 Jul 2019)
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Athlete, Student
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Exercise Science, Sports Science - Australian Catholic University, Sydney, NSW, AUS
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English, German
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Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre [SOPAC] Swim Team [Australia]
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Ahead of the 2019 Australian national championships in Adelaide, SA, he sustained a grade one hamstring strain while swimming during training. (sbs.com.au, 08 Apr 2019)
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He learnt to swim as a child at Eva Bory's Swim School in Sydney, NSW, Australia. "I didn't start squad [training] until I was eight and started competing at age nine." (nepeanaquaticcentre.com.au, 23 Aug 2017; bluemountainsgazette.com.au, 22 Jan 2016)
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His parents enrolled him in swimming lessons for pool safety, and his childhood dream soon became representing Australia in swimming. He was spurred on to become a stronger swimmer as a child after being unable to finish a 100m race at a school swimming gala in his early years. (bluemountainsgazette.com.au, 09 Apr 2018; speedo.com.au, 30 Mar 2021)
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To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, after missing out on selection for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. (Instagram profile, 14 Apr 2021; bluemountainsgazette.com.au, 09 Apr 2018; Swimming NSW Facebook page, 13 Mar 2019)
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Winning bronze in the 200m breaststroke at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. (swimming.org.au, 01 Nov 2018)
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Australian swimmer Christian Sprenger. (gc2018.com, 01 Mar 2018)
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Coach Adam Kable. (NSW Institute of Sport YouTube channel, 28 Jun 2017)
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In 2019 and 2020 he was named Oceania Male Swimmer of the Year by swimming news website SwimSwam. (swimswam.com, 15 Dec 2020; 28 Dec 2019)

General Interest

General
RIO REDEMPTION
He won the 200m breaststroke final at the Australian national championships in 2016, which doubled as the national trials for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. But his winning time of 2:09.90 missed Swimming Australia's qualifying time of 2:09.64, and he was not selected to compete at the Games in Rio de Janeiro. "[Missing the 2016 Olympic Games] was probably the best thing that could happen to me. It's made me more mentally resilient to my competitors. [In 2020] I want to prove to myself that I can perform on the Olympic stage." (Swimming NSW Facebook page, 13 Mar 2019)

BREASTSTROKE FOCUS
He began focusing on breaststroke in 2016. "I started out as a medley swimmer. Coming into 2016 I started moving towards breaststroke as I thought it would be my best chance of making the Olympic team. So I knuckled down, started doing breaststroke, and I've stuck with it ever since." (Swimming NSW Facebook page, 13 Mar 2019)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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