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Australian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Commonwealth Games gold medallist
Ian Vander-Wal
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Australian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Commonwealth Games gold medallist
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Ian Daniel Vander-Wal
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Birth:
22 August 1971(Darwin)
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Biography
Ian Daniel Vander-Wal (born 22 August 1971) is an Australian former sprint and middle distance freestyle swimmer who represented Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He was a member of the 4x100-metre and 4x200-metre freestyle relay teams. He trained at the Commercial Swimming Club in Brisbane.
He also competed at the 1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, where he combined with Michael Klim, Grant Hackett and Ian Thorpe to earn a silver medal in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder from 1989 to 1992.