{"id":597434,"date":"2024-10-10T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T23:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=597434"},"modified":"2024-10-11T05:07:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:07:19","slug":"olympic-champion-zac-stubblety-cook-to-join-adam-peatys-coach-mel-marshall-on-the-gold-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympic-champion-zac-stubblety-cook-to-join-adam-peatys-coach-mel-marshall-on-the-gold-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Champion Zac Stubblety-Cook To Join Adam Peaty\u2019s Coach Mel Marshall On The Gold Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympic Champion Zac Stubblety-Cook To Join Adam Peaty\u2019s Coach Mel Marshall On The Gold Coast<\/strong><\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s Olympic champion breaststroker Zac Stubblety-Cook<\/strong> has revealed he will link with celebrated British Olympic coach Mel Marshall<\/strong> on the Gold Coast as he kick-starts the next chapter of his career.<\/p>\n

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FRESH START: Zac Stubblety-Cook. Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr.<\/p><\/div>\n

A move that will see the formation of another major breaststroke partnership for Marshall who has masterminded the career of arguably the world\u2019s greatest ever breaststroker \u2013 triple Olympic champion Adam Peaty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Stubblety-Cook could not have wished for a more credentialled coach to land in his backyard \u2013 only having to move from his Brisbane training base at Chandler an hour down Queensland\u2019s M1 to the Griffith University program at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.<\/p>\n

The Olympic gold and silver medallist and former world record holder over 200m breaststroke has spent the last eight years under master Australian Olympic gold medal coach, one of Queensland’s favorite sons Vince Raleigh.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raleigh has taken the 25-year-old to the top of the world, but all good things come to a close and he has told Stubblety-Cook that he won\u2019t be coaching at a High-Performance level in the future, moving on to the next stage of his life.<\/p>\n

At 72, Raleigh has been one of the Australian Swimming\u2019s longest serving and most successful National Team coaches.<\/p>\n

Like Marshall and Peaty, together Raleigh and Stubblety-Cook have developed a gold medal winning partnership through two Olympic and World Championship campaigns \u2013 with Stubblety-Cook becoming the first Australian to win Olympic gold in the 200m breaststroke in Tokyo 2020 \u2013 the first since Ian O\u2019Brien in Tokyo in 1964.<\/p>\n

Raleigh setting Stubblety-Cook to break the world record for 200m breaststroke at the 2022 Trials in Adelaide, before winning the world title in Budapest.<\/p>\n

Stubblety-Cook told ABC radio in Australia that he would be moving to join Marshall \u2013 the coach who has masterminded the extraordinary career of arguably the world\u2019s greatest ever breaststroker in Peaty.<\/p>\n

\u201cVince and I sat down and talked about the future, and he said he would be moving on from coaching to focus on the rest of his life and I will be making the move to Mel Marshall (at Griffith University) on the Gold Coast,\u201d said Stubblety-Cook.<\/p>\n

Marshall comes to the Gold Coast and into a program developed by Australian Olympic gold medal coach Michael Bohl<\/strong> – the man behind the Olympic gold medal successes of Stephanie Rice<\/strong> (2008), Emma McKeon<\/strong> (2016, 2020, 2024) and Kaylee McKeown<\/strong> (2024) – and who has taken a 12-month sabbatical.<\/p>\n

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Mel Marshall Heads To Australia After Guiding Adam Peaty To Olympic Gold & Uncharted Territory<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n