Geoff Huegill

• Team: Australia
• Sport: Swimming

• Date of birth: 04-Mar-1979
• Discipline: Butterfly

Biography

Geoff “Skippy” Huegill is considered as one of Australia’s biggest personalities in the swimming world, as well as the nation’s favourite comeback kid.

Geoff retired from the sport after the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and thereafter announced his comeback to competitive swimming in November 2008. With a huge task ahead, Geoff’s goal of national team selection was accomplished at the 2010 Australian National Championships, winning gold in the 50m butterfly and then continuing on to win 3 medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Between 1997 and 2004, Huegill established himself as one of the world’s finest butterfly competitors over 50 and 100m, winning individual bronze in the 100m butterfly and silver in the 4x100m medley relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. By the age of 25, he was a six time world champion, eight-time world record holder and a five-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist with over 10 Australian National titles.

Geoff has his sights firmly set on the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Records Held

Geoff has been world short course champion 3 times, once in 1997 and twice in 2002. He was also double world champion in 2001, winning gold in the 50metres butterfly and swimming the butterfly leg on the 4x100 medley relay..

Achievements

Winning 2 Olympic medals in Sydney 2000-Silver in the 4x100 medley relay & bronze in the 100metres butterfly.