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Kieren Perkins Named President of Swimming Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the end of \u00a0a tumultuous fortnight and a week tinged with sadness and yesterday’s shock positive drugs test, there is finally some light emerging at the end of the tunnel for swimming in Australia.<\/p>\n

The unveiling today of Olympic swimming legend Kieren Perkins OAM<\/strong> as the 20th<\/sup> president of Swimming Australia could well prove to be the midas touch the sport has been searching for.<\/p>\n

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FIST COMPETITOR: Kieren Perkins celebrates his Olympic 1500m freestyle gold in Barcelona in 1992. Photo by: Russell McPhedran (Hanson media Collection).<\/p><\/div>\n

At 47, Perkins takes over from retiring president, fellow Olympian, yachtsman John Bertrand<\/strong>, who resigned from his post last month after a seven-year reign.<\/p>\n

And it comes just days after the sad passing of legendary coach Don Talbot<\/strong> at 87 \u2013 the man who presided over an era which saw Perkins dominate world distance swimming in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

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TRIBUTES FLOW FOR DON TALBOT \u2013 COACHING ICON LEAVES LIFETIME LEGACY FOR SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA<\/a><\/p>\n

But the two-time Olympic 1500m freestyle gold medallist from Barcelona and Atlanta has dived into a baptism of fire following yesterday\u2019s staggering revelation that Australia\u2019s 2008 Beijing silver medallist and 2012 London Olympian Brenton Rickard<\/strong> had returned a positive doping test at those Games eight years ago.<\/p>\n

BRENTON RICKARD\u2019S 2012 LONDON OLYMPIC POSITIVE TEST<\/a><\/p>\n

Relay heat swimmer Rickard faces an IOC hearing and will vigorously fight the charges that could well see his 4x100m medley relay team mates stripped of their bronze medals.<\/p>\n

Perkins knows what it\u2019s all about to roll his sleeves up and fight for your life \u2013 producing one of the greatest performances in Olympic history with his gold medal swim to win the 1500m from lane eight in Atlanta in 1996.<\/p>\n

Perkins appointment completes a major shake-up in Swimming\u2019s corridors of power which has seen:<\/p>\n

HEAD<\/strong> coach Jacco Verhaeren<\/strong> return home to the Netherlands after presiding over the Dolphins since 2013, succeeded by Victorian Olympic coach, Rohan Taylor,<\/strong> who will guide the team to Tokyo in 2021.<\/p>\n

THE ELECTION<\/strong> of three new directors in former Australian Swimming Coaches And Teachers Association (ASCTA) president Tony Shaw<\/strong>, Swimming Queensland president Michael Cox<\/strong> and former Sports Commission General Manager, Paralympic chief and former journalist Greg Hartung<\/strong>, replacing Bertrand, long serving directors\u00a0Graeme Johnson<\/strong> and triple Olympian Nicole Livingstone,<\/strong> before;<\/p>\n

THE RESIGNATION<\/strong> \u00a0of CEO Leigh Russell<\/strong>, with Chief Operating Officer Tim Dempsey<\/strong> standing in as the interim CEO before a comprehensive executive search is undertaken to fill the role while;<\/p>\n

PERKINS<\/strong> appointment co-incides with the election of celebrated Learn To Swim Victoria Director and former Paralympic coach Joanne Love<\/strong> as the first female president of the ASCTA – following Shaw’s elevation to the SAL board.<\/p>\n

There has been general unrest amongst swimming\u2019s stakeholders for some time and Perkins, a senior banking executive with the National Australia Bank (NAB), over seeing a team of 150 staff, knows what it takes to build a winning team.<\/p>\n

He was a member of some of the most successful Australian Swim Teams between 1990 and 2000 \u2013 when Team Talbot steered the Dolphins to some memorable success stories in a golden era – having a profound effect on his swimmers.<\/p>\n

Perkins saw the passion and team spirit that Talbot brought to the pool deck and says he wants to work on ensuring swimming remained strong in Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a strong desire to maintain swimming\u2019s position as Australia\u2019s most successful Olympic sport and with only a year out from Tokyo it\u2019s important to keep a level of stability and focus,\u201d Perkins said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to keep building momentum and heading into an Olympic year there is no better opportunity to bring the sport and the country together and inspire future generations.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore broadly, I would also like to work on connecting the dots within the sport\u2019s wider community \u2013 bringing more people to our sport and growing and nurturing the stars of the future through our pathway to the elite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kieren’s Record Breaking Laps Of Honour<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PIECES OF EIGHT: Kieren Perkins winning Olympic gold from lane eight in Atlanta in 1996. Photo by: Russell McPhedran (Hanson Media Collection).<\/p><\/div>\n

Perkins is regarded as one of the world\u2019s greatest ever freestyle swimmers who took the 1500 metres freestyle to another level, breaking the world record three times between 1992 and 1994 as well as three times breaking the 800m freestyle and 400m freestyle world records.<\/p>\n

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His was the name on everyone\u2019s lips in Australia and around the world. Commanding record TV ratings and the front and back pages of Australia\u2019s newspapers.<\/p>\n

He was regarded as” the king of the pool”, who was the first swimmer to break 14:50, with his time of 14:48.40 at the Australian Olympic Trials in Canberra in 1992.<\/p>\n

But it was only just beginning and at the Olympics later that year in Barcelona, Perkins stopped the clock in a remarkable world record time 14:43.48.<\/p>\n

It would be another two years before he would be in the kind of shape to chase his own world record and on August 24, 1994, in Victoria, Canada, Perkins produced one of the most amazing swims in history \u2013 setting a new 800m world mark (7:46.00) on the way through to his extraordinary world record for 1500m of 14:41.66.<\/p>\n

Just weeks later at the World Champion ships in Rome he would establish one of the greatest records in swimming in the 40909m freestyle, clocking a time of 3:43.80 in a swim regarded by many to be his finest – a time lowered by Ian Thorpe to 3:41.83 some five years later at his record breaking Pan Pacs in Sydney.<\/p>\n

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ROMAN CONQUEROR: Kieren Perkins claims the 400m freestyle world record in Rome in 1994. Photo Courtesy: Fina.<\/p><\/div>\n

Perkins headlined what he described as a \u201cspecial era\u201d in distance freestyle in Australia and around the world when the best coaches and athletes in the world collaborated to help each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe success we had in the 90s and 2000s were attributable to the environment created by Don Talbot and Swimming Australia,\u201d recalled Perkins.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy coach John Carew<\/strong> and Grant Hackett\u2019s<\/strong> coach Denis Cotterell<\/strong> would talk all the time and we would often train together for our betterment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey created best practice coaching and it was Glen Housman<\/strong> pushing me and Daniel Kowalski and I pushing each other and then Grant came along.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a case of swimming against and for each other for the full exploration of our potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talbot’s influence is continuing to have an impact on swimming in Australia and Perkins – a legacy that just might start to turn the tide.<\/p>\n

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