Travis Nederpelt

Travis Nederpelt
Personal information
Full name Travis Nederpelt
National team  Australia
Born (1985-06-10) 10 June 1985
Perth, Western Australia
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly, medley

Travis Nederpelt (born 10 June 1985) is an Australian former competition swimmer from Western Australia and butterfly specialist who represented his country at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens and in 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[1] His best Olympic performance was 8th in the final of the men's 400-metre individual medley at Athens.[2]

Nederpelt is a record eight-time[3] winner of the popular Swim Thru Rottnest event.

His brother Jarrad Nederpelt is also a competitive club swimmer with whom he holds the current duo record for the Rottnest Channel Swim event, set in 2001.

In May 2012 at the age of 26, Nederpelt retired from competitive swimming,[4] but continued to serve the sport as a coach.

He became a member of the Swimming WA Board in 2016, and in 2018 was inducted into the WA Swimming Hall of Fame.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Travis Nederpelt". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
  2. ↑ "Travis Nederpelt". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
  3. ↑ "SwimThruRotto Winners". Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Travis Nederpelt bids farewell to swimming". Swimming Australia. 17 May 2012. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Hall of Fame". Swimming WA. 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-27.


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