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Flynn Southam

Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	(2005-06-05) 5 June 2005 (age 19) Murdoch, Western Australia
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Bond University
Coach	Chris Mooney
Medal record Men's swimming Representing  Australia Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 1 World Championships (LC) 2 0 1 World Championships (SC) 1 3 1 Commonwealth Games 3 0 0 World Junior Championships 2 2 1 Junior Pan Pac Championships 4 2 0 Total 12 8 4 Olympic Games 2024 Paris 4×100 m freestyle 2024 Paris 4x200 m freestyle World Championships (LC) 2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m freestyle 2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m mixed freestyle 2023 Fukuoka 4×200 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m freestyle 2022 Melbourne 4×100 m freestyle 2022 Melbourne 4×200 m freestyle 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m mixed freestyle 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m medley Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m freestyle 2022 Birmingham 4×200 m freestyle 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m mixed freestyle World Junior Championships 2023 Netanya 200 m freestyle 2023 Netanya 4×100 m mixed freestyle 2023 Netanya 50 m freestyle 2023 Netanya 4×100 m freestyle 2023 Netanya 4×200 m freestyle Junior Pan Pacific Championships 2022 Honolulu 50 m freestyle 2022 Honolulu 100 m freestyle 2022 Honolulu 200 m freestyle 2022 Honolulu 4×200 m freestyle 2022 Honolulu 4×100 m freestyle 2022 Honolulu 4×100 m medley

Flynn Southam (born 5 June 2005) is an Australian swimmer. At the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, he won gold medals in the 50 metre freestyle, 100 metre freestyle, and 200 metre freestyle. In the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, he won a gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games as well as silver medals at the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships and the 2022 World Short Course Championships, swimming on the finals relay at each competition. In the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, he won gold medals as a finals relay member at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, and a silver medal at the 2022 World Short Course Championships.

Background

Southam was born 5 June 2005 in Australia. He trains at Bond University in Gold Coast, Queensland under the guidance of head coach Chris Mooney.

Career

2022

2022 Australian Swimming Championships

At the 2022 Australian Swimming Championships, held in Adelaide in May, Southam qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, based on his time of 48.76 and third-place finish in the 100 metre freestyle, and the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, based on his fourth-place finish in the 200 metre freestyle with a time of 1:46.82.

2022 Commonwealth Games

On day one of swimming competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, conducted at Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Birmingham, England starting in July, Southam won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay, contributing a split of 49.21 for the first leg of the preliminaries before being substituted out for William Yang in the final. The following day, he won a second gold medal, this time leading off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the final with a time of 48.54 seconds to help achieve a new Games record time of 3:11.12 with finals relay teammates Zac Incerti, William Yang, and Kyle Chalmers. Two days later, he went three for three in his relay events, helping win the gold medal in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay in a Games record time of 7:04.96 by contributing a split of 1:46.08 for the second leg of the relay in the final. In his final event, the 50 metre freestyle, he placed tenth in the semifinals with a time of 22.60 seconds.

2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships

2022 Junior Pan Pac Championships
	200 m freestyle	1:47.11 (CR)
	100 m freestyle	48.23 (CR)
	4×200 m freestyle	7:13.07 (CR)
	50 m freestyle	22.36
	4×100 m freestyle	3:18.06
	4×100 m medley	3:36.96

For the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, held at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in August in Honolulu, United States, Southam won the gold medal in the 200 metre freestyle with a Championships record of 1:47.11, breaking former record of 1:47.65 set by Drew Kibler in 2018. The following day, he won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a Championships record time of 48.23 seconds, lowering the former mark of 48.91 established by Jack Cartwright in 2016, and finishing over one full second ahead of silver medalist Thomas Heilman of the United States. Later in the finals session, he helped win the gold medal in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay in a Championships record time of 7:13.07, leading off the relay with a time of 1:47.30. On the third day, he helped win the silver medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in a final time of 3:18.06, leading-off the relay with a 48.43.

Starting off the fourth and final day, Southam ranked third in the preliminaries of the 50 metre freestyle with a time of 22.75 seconds and qualified for the final. For his first event of the evening finals session, he won the gold medal in the 50 metre freestyle, finishing in a time of 22.36 seconds, which was 0.14 seconds ahead of the two Americans who tied for the silver medal. Concluding the Championships, he helped win the silver medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, splitting a 47.87 for the freestyle leg of the relay to contribute to the final mark of 3:36.96. Across his individual events, he earned a total of 27 points for his placings, ranking as the second highest scoring male swimmer, only one point behind fellow Australian Joshua Staples.

2022 World Short Course Championships

2022 World Championships (SC)
	4×50 m freestyle	1:23.44 (OC)
	4×100 m freestyle	3:04.63 (OC)
	4×50 m mixed freestyle	1:28.03 (h)
	4×200 m freestyle	6:46.54 (OC)
	4×50 m medley	1:30.81 (h)

Southam was named to the Team Australia roster in early September for the 2022 World Short Course Championships in Melbourne, which was a little over two months before the start of competition. On the first day of competition, 13 December, he contributed a split time of 46.55 seconds for the second leg of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the preliminaries to help qualify the relay to the final ranking fourth with a time of 3:07.02. In the evening final, he helped win the silver medal in an Oceanian, Commonwealth and Australian record time of 3:04.63, leading-off the relay with a personal best time of 47.04. The third morning, he swam the third leg of the 4×50 metre freestyle relay in the preliminaries in 21.08 seconds, which contributed to a time of 1:24.42 that qualified the relay to the final ranking fifth. For the final, he swam a 21.10 for the third leg, helping set new Oceanian, Commonwealth, Australian, and Australian All Comers records of 1:23.44 and win the gold medal.

Leading-off the 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay in the morning preliminaries on day four with a 22.04, Southam helped qualify the relay to the final ranking second in 1:29.82. Later in the same preliminaries session, he split a 1:42.20 for the second leg of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay to help advance the relay to the final ranked fourth with a time of 6:54.83. On the finals 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay, Kyle Chalmers substituted in for him and he won a silver medal for his efforts when the relay placed second in 1:28.03. In his second event of the evening, he split a 1:41.50 for the third leg of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay to help win the silver medal in an Oceanian, Commonwealth, and Australian record time of 6:46.54. The fifth morning, he helped advance the 4×50 metre medley relay to the final ranking seventh with a time of 1:33.25, swimming a 21.28 for the freestyle leg of the relay. He won a bronze medal in the event when the finals relay placed third in a time of 1:30.81.

2023

At the 2023 New South Wales State Open Championships in March in Sydney, Southam won the gold medal in the 200 metre freestyle with a 1:47.08, placed fourth in the final of the 100 metre freestyle with a 49.08, eighth in the final of the 50 metre freestyle with a 22.78, and fifth in the 1500 metre freestyle with a 16:01.14. The following month, in the preliminaries of the 200 metre freestyle on day two at the 2023 Australian Swimming Championships, he ranked third and qualified for the final with a time of 1:47.53. He won a silver medal in the final with a personal best time of 1:46.67. The following day, he won the bronze medal in the 50 metre freestyle with a personal best time of 22.32 seconds. On the fourth and final day, he won the bronze medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 48.53 seconds before winning the national title in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, where he split a 47.71 for the anchor leg of the relay to help finish in 3:18.35. Following the Championships, he was named to the Swimming Australia roster for the 2023 World Junior Championships.

For his first event at the 2023 Australian Swimming Trials in June in Melbourne, Southam placed fifth in the final of the 200 metre freestyle with a 1:47.11.

International championships (50 m)

Meet	50 freestyle	100 freestyle	200 freestyle	4×100 freestyle	4×200 freestyle	4×100 medley	4×100 mixed freestyle
Junior level
PACJ 2022							—
WJR 2023		9th				5th
Senior level
CG 2022	10th
WC 2023		11th

Southam swam only in the prelims heats.

International championships (25 m)

Meet	4×50 freestyle	4×100 freestyle	4×200 freestyle	4×50 medley	4×50 mixed freestyle
SCW 2022

Southam swam only in the prelims heats.

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Short course metres (50 m pool)

Legend: r – relay 1st leg

Continental and national records

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Awards and honours

• Hancock Prospecting Swimming Excellence scholarship, holder: 2023

References

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External links

• Flynn Southam at World Aquatics
• Flynn Southam at SwimRankings.net
• Flynn Southam at Commonwealth Games Australia
• Flynn Southam at Commonwealth Games Australia
• Flynn Southam at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

• 2005 births
• Living people
• Swimmers from the Gold Coast
• Australian male freestyle swimmers
• Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia
• Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
• Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
• Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
• Sportsmen from Western Australia
• 21st-century Australian sportsmen
• Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
• World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
• Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• Olympic swimmers for Australia
• Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• Olympic silver medalists in swimming
• Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
• Olympic silver medalists for Australia
• Olympic bronze medalists for Australia