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Geoff Huegill

Personal information
Full name	Geoffrey Andrew Huegill
Nickname(s)	Skippy, "The Big H"
Nationality	Australia
Stroke(s)	Butterfly
Club	SOPAC Swimming Club
Date of birth	4 March 1979 (1979-03-04) (age 31)
Place of birth	Gove, Northern Territory, Australia
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight	205 lbs (95kg)
Medal record Men's swimming Competitor for  Australia Olympic Games Silver 2000 Sydney 4x100 m medley Bronze 2000 Sydney 100 m butterfly World Championships (LC) Gold 2001 Fukuoka 50 m butterfly Gold 2001 Fukuoka 4x100 m medley Gold 1998 Perth 4x100 m medley Bronze 1998 Perth 100 m butterfly Bronze 2001 Fukuoka 100 m butterfly Pan Pacific Championships Silver 1999 Sydney 100 m butterfly Silver 2002 Yokohama 100 m butterfly Silver 2002 Yokohama 4x100 m medley Commonwealth Games Gold 1998 Kuala Lumpur 100 m butterfly Gold 1998 Kuala Lumpur 4x100 m medley Gold 2002 Manchester 50 m butterfly Gold 2002 Manchester 100 m butterfly Gold 2002 Manchester 4x100 m medley Goodwill Games Gold 2001 Brisbane 50 m butterfly Gold 2001 Brisbane 4×100 m medley Silver 2001 Brisbane 100 m butterfly World Championships (SC) Gold 1997 Gothenburg 4x100 m medley Gold 2002 Moscow 50 m butterfly Gold 2002 Moscow 100 m butterfly Silver 1997 Gothenburg 100 m butterfly Silver 2002 Moscow 4x100 m medley

Geoffrey Andrew Huegill (born 4 March 1979 in Gove, Northern Territory) to an Australian father and a Thai mother is a swimmer from Australia. He is a Multiple Olympic, World, Pan Pac & Commonwealth Games medallist, and a previous world record holder in the 50m Butterfly. In 2009, he was also featured in "Australia's Next top Model, Cycle 1" as a model the girls had to work with.

Olympic & World Championships Accomplishments

Huegill is a 2 time Olympian, he won a silver and bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Huegill also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he placed 8th in the 100m butterfly.

Despite not collecting Olympic Gold, he did pick up his first World Championship Gold in 1998 World Championships Perth, swimming for the 4x100 Medley B team along with a bronze in the 100m butterfly. In 2001, he picked up Gold in the 50m Butterfly as well as defending the Medley Relay Championship, this time swimming for the A team, and again bronze in the 100m Butterfly.

Comeback

• On 12 November 2008, Huegill announced his comeback to competitive swimming. Having had major battles with his weight since quitting the sport following the 2004 Athens Olympics. He said he had lost more than 40 kilograms (coming from 138kg) for his comeback and would train for the 50 and 100 butterfly with the aim of competing at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.

• He raised a lot of eyebrows qualifying for the finals in the 50m and 100m Butterfly at the 2009 Telstra Australian Championships. He built more momentum in August 2009 at the Australian Short Course Championships, capturing his first national medal in 5 years.

• 2010 brought enormous improvements, clocking 23.44 in the 50m butterfly to win the Australian title, just 0.02s off his old world record from 2001. In a post-swim interview he claimed to be a lean 93kg's.

External links

• Official Geoff Huegill Website
• FINA profile for Geoff Huegill
• Swimming Australia profile for Geoff Huegill
• Geoff Huegill at the Internet Movie Database

Records
Preceded by Denis Pankratov	Men's 50 metre butterfly world record holder (long course) 14 May 2000 – 2 July 2003	Succeeded by Matt Welsh
Preceded by Mark Foster	Men's 50 metre butterfly world record holder (short course) 18 December 2001 – 10 October 2004	Succeeded by Ian Crocker