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Phil Rogers
Personal information
Full namePhilip John Rogers
Nickname"Phil"
National team Australia
Born (1971-04-24) 24 April 1971 (age 53)
Adelaide, South Australia
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight81 kg (179 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke

Philip John Rogers (born 24 April 1971) is a former breaststroke swimmer who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for Australia, starting in 1992. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[1]

At his Olympic debut he won the bronze medal in the 100-metre breaststroke, followed by a bronze in 1996 in the 4x100-metre medley relay. During his last Olympic appearance, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he was the oldest member of the Australian Swimming team, at age 29.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ AIS at the Olympics
  2. ^ "Sports Reference profile". Sports Reference. 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.