{"id":403579,"date":"2024-06-17T00:06:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T00:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403579"},"modified":"2024-06-17T01:05:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T01:05:41","slug":"swim-that-catapulted-thorpe-from-young-gun-to-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403579","title":{"rendered":"Swim that catapulted Thorpe from young gun to superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"

To mark 100 days from the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Nine.com.au asked you what your favourite Olympic memories were in a survey. The response was overwhelming! We chose 50 of them to re-live, one a day, before new memories are made in Paris. Scroll on for today's memory.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Raising his fists\ufeff to head height and scanning the Sydney crowd with a steely gaze, Ian Thorpe<\/a> soaked up the feeling of becoming an Olympic<\/a> gold medallist.<\/p>\n

Cheering, clapping and whistling wildly, those watching on showed their appreciation for the 17-year-old delivering Australia's first gold medal of the 2000 Olympics.<\/p>\n

His victory came in the men's 400m freestyle, an event in which he was the world record holder and the reigning world champion.<\/p>\n

Watch the video at the top of the page to see Ian Thorpe win 400m freestyle gold at the Sydney 2000 Olympics!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Wearing his iconic black, full-body suit, he scorched through the eight-lap race in Sydney in three minutes and 40.59 seconds (3:40.59), blowing his rivals away with his 196cm frame, 190cm arm span, size-17 feet and exquisite technique.<\/p>\n

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"I knew I was expected to win … No, it was assumed that I'd win. I knew that," Ian Thorpe told The Sydney Morning Herald 20 years on<\/a>.<\/p>\n

"But I was an untested athlete at an Olympic Games. I knew there had been great swimmers who had come before me who had been really successful at world championships, who had not actually become Olympic champions."\ufeff<\/p>\n

Thorpe was back in the pool some 60 minutes later, anchoring Australia to an epic victory over the US in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He won another gold medal in Sydney in the 4x200m freestyle, before taking his Olympic gold medal tally to five in Athens four years later.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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