Craig Stevens (swimmer)

Craig Stevens
Personal information
Full nameCraig Julian Stevens
National team Australia
Born (1980-07-23) 23 July 1980 (age 44)
Sydney
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubSutherland Leisure Aquadot
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Australia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens[1] 4×200m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2003 Barcelona 4×200m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2007 Melbourne 800m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2002 Moscow[2] 4×200m freestyle
Goodwill Games
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Brisbane 400m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Brisbane 1500m freestyle
Pan Pacific Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Yokohama 4×200 m freestyle
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Manchester 1500m freestyle

Craig Julian Stevens (born 23 July 1980) is an Australian former freestyle swimmer specialising in the 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle events. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[3]

Stevens was the bronze medallist in the 1500m freestyle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games,[4] but he narrowly missed out on a medal in the 400m freestyle, finishing 4th.

In 2004, Stevens made his Olympic Games debut at Athens. There, he won silver as part of the Australian 4×200m relay team and also made the final in the 1500m. He relinquished his place in the 400m freestyle for world record holder Ian Thorpe, who had been disqualified from the event at the Australian trials.

Stevens was initially left out of the Australian team for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in his home country. However, Ian Thorpe had to withdraw from the games due to illness, which allowed Stevens to take Thorpe's place in the team. After qualifying as the fastest heat swimmer, he again came 4th in the 400m freestyle final. He also contested the 1500m freestyle final and finished in 6th place.

In March 2007, Stevens won his first World Championship medal after finishing 3rd in the 800m freestyle final with a personal best time of 7:48.67. After the disqualification of Oussama Mellouli, Stevens was elevated to 2nd. At the same meet, he also broke the 15-minute barrier in the 1500m freestyle for the first time, finishing 6th in the final with a time of 14:59.11.

Stevens qualified for the Australian Olympic swimming team for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics on 29 March 2008 at the Australian Olympic Qualifiers at Homebush in Sydney. He qualified for both the 400m and 1500m freestyle events. He finished 2nd behind Grant Hackett in the 1500m with a personal best of 14:53.18, making him the third fastest Australian 1500m swimmer in history.

Stevens failed to qualify for the finals of the 400m freestyle at the Olympics as he was comprehensively out-swum, finishing in 8th place in heat three, 7 seconds behind the winner. In the 1500m freestyle, Stevens again failed to make the finals finishing 5th in heat four, some 17 seconds behind the winner and 8 seconds outside of his personal best.

Post-retirement life

Stevens retired from competitive swimming in 2008. After retiring from swimming, he worked first as a bank teller and then for Toyota. He is now head swimming coach at Sans Souci Leisure Centre in Sans Souci, New South Wales.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "2004 Olympic Games swimming results". CNN. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
  2. ^ "2002 World Championships – Short Course Swim Rankings results". Archived from the original on 8 September 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
  3. ^ AIS at the Olympics Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "BBC Sport Commonwealth Games 2002 Statistics". BBC News. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. ^ "Olympic swimmer Craig Stevens turns to coaching at Sans Souci Leisure Centre". 8 April 2015.
  6. ^ "Craig Stevens' act of mateship for Ian Thorpe still a pleasure". 15 February 2014.


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