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| Full name | Ian Daniel Vander-Wal | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1971-09-22) 22 September 1971 (age 53) Darwin, Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Commercial Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ian Daniel Vander-Wal (born 22 September 1971) is an Australian former sprint and middle-distance freestyle swimmer who represented Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was a member of the 4x100-metre and 4x200-metre freestyle relay teams. He trained at the Commercial Swimming Club in Brisbane.
He also competed at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, where he combined with Michael Klim, Grant Hackett and Ian Thorpe to earn a silver medal in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder from 1989 to 1992.
See also
References
- "Sally Pearson".
- "Sports Reference profile". Sports Reference. 2014. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
- ClubRoleofHonour Archived 27 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- G Hunter, p. 87, Ian Thorpe:the biography
- Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission. 2002. ISBN 1-74013-060-X.
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