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Swimming At The 2006 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 Metre Backstroke
Men's 200 m Backstroke - Final Men's 200 m Backstroke - Heats Men's 200 m Backstroke - Heat 01 Men's 200 m Backstroke - Heat 02 {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming At The 2006 Commonwealth Games - Men's 200 Metres Backstroke Swimming at the 2006 Commonwealth Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guernsey At The 2006 Commonwealth Games
The British Crown dependency of Guernsey was represented in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 28-member strong contingent, comprising 28 sportspersons and no officials. They competed in 8 sports, including athletics, badminton, cycling, lawn bowls, shooting, squash, swimming, and triathlon. They won no medals. Medals Guernsey's Commonwealth Games Team 2006 Athletics * Dale Garland, Decathlon & 400 m Hurdles * Lee Merrien, 800 m & 1500 m Badminton * Elena Johnson & Paul Le Tocq, Mixed Doubles Cycling * Rob Smart, Mountain Bike * Tobyn Horton, Road Race Lawn bowls * Alison Merrien * Matt Le Ber * Ian Merrien * Paul Merrien * Alan Merrien Shooting * Peter Jory & Adam Jory, Full Bore Rifle Pairs * Nick Dewe & Stefan Roberts, Skeet Squash * Chris Simpson Swimming * Ben Lowndes – Freestyle, Butterfly and Individual Medley * Jonathon Le Noury – 1500 m, 200 m and 100 m Freestyle * Ian Powell – Backstroke, Butterfly and Individual Medley * Gail Stro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gael Adam
Sebastien Gael Adam (born March 28, 1986 in Beau Bassin) is a Mauritian swimmer who specializes in freestyle events. He represented his nation Mauritius at the 2008 Summer Olympics, placing himself among the top 60 swimmers in the 100 m freestyle. During his sporting career, Adam trained full-time at Brest Swimming Club in France. Adam was invited by FINA to compete for Mauritius in the men's 100 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Swimming in heat two, he chased Fiji's five-time Olympian Carl Probert Carl Harvie Probert (born 13 September 1975 in Suva, Rewa, Fiji) is a 5-time Olympic swimmer and National Record holder from Fiji. He swam for Fiji at the 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics. He also competed for Fiji at the 1998 Commonw ... on the final stretch to hit the wall in third place and fifty-seventh overall by a close, 0.02-second margin with a time of 52.35 seconds. References External links * NBC Olympics Profile 1986 births Livin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rehan Poncha
Rehan Jahangir Poncha (born 3 August 1986) is an Indian former swimmer, Olympian, Arjuna Award winner and a six-time national champion, who specialized in backstroke, butterfly, and individual medley events. He is also the recipient of the Eklavya Award from the Karnataka Olympic Association. He is a 6-time Indian swimming champion, and a 6-time record holder in the butterfly (both 100 and 200 m). Poncha also set two of his records in the freestyle and medley relays at the 2009 Asian Swimming Championships in Foshan, China, along with his teammates Sandeep Sejwal, Virdhawal Khade, and Aaron D'Souza. Poncha qualified for the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:01.40 from the Telstra Grand Prix in Sydney, Australia. He edged out Peru's Emmanuel Crescimbeni to take a second spot in heat 1 by 0.24 of a second in 2:01.89. Poncha failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fortieth overall in the prelimina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hollingsworth (swimmer)
Thomas Hollingsworth (1748-1814) was a British stage actor. Born to a house servant at Covent Garden, following the death of his father he was mentored by the actor Joseph Younger. Hollingsworth first acted at Covent Garden and later joined Richard Brinsley Sheridan's company at Drury Lane appearing in numerous roles between 1787 and 1804. He was also acted in various provincial theatres.Cox and Garner p.420 Selected roles * Taffy in ''The Welsh Heiress'' by Edward Jerningham (1795) * Mr Quake in ''Knave or Not?'' by Thomas Holcroft (1798) * Squeez'em in '' The East Indian'' by Matthew Lewis (1799) * Robert in ''Hear Both Sides ''Hear Both Sides'' is an 1803 comedy play by the British writer Thomas Holcroft.Nicoll p.316 The original Drury Lane cast included William Dowton as Fairfax, John Bannister as Transit, Charles Kemble as Headlong, Richard Suett as Sir Charle ...'' by Thomas Holcroft (1803) References Bibliography * Cox, Jeffrey N. & Gamer, Michael. ''The Broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garth Tune
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Cayman Islands At The 2006 Commonwealth Games
The British overseas territory of the Cayman Islands was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Medals *None Results by event Athletics : Ronald Forbes : Robert Ibeh : Stephen Antoine Ovar Johnson :Michael Letterlough :Cydonie Mothersille : Kirk Streete-Thompson Cycling : Duke Perrigoff Merren Shooting : Thomas George Ebanks : Robert Harris : Christopher Jackson : Edison McLean Squash : Jeffery Broderick : Chantelle Day Swimming : Shaune Fraser :Andrew Mackay : Jennifer Powell :Heather Roffey See also *Cayman Islands at the 2004 Summer Olympics * Cayman Islands at the 2007 Pan American Games *Cayman Islands at the 2008 Summer Olympics The Cayman Islands sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The delegation included fifteen people; of the delegation, four athletes participated under the Caymanian flag. In the track and field events was Rona ... References Cayman Islands at the Commonwealth Games Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Mackay (swimmer)
Andrew Mackay (born November 1, 1985) is an Olympic-swimmer from the Cayman Islands. He swam for the Cayman Islands at the 2004 Olympics, the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He swam in college in the US for the University of Notre Dame. In 2003, he became the first Cayman Island swimmer (as well as the first Notre Dame swimmer) to ever qualify for the Olympics. . Published by '''' online on 2003-04-21. Retrieved 2009-06-10. He swam at: * |
Isle Of Man At The 2006 Commonwealth Games
The Isle of Man was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 36-member strong contingent, comprising 27 sportsmen and women and 9 officials. Amongst their number was the Commonwealth Games' youngest ever competitor, Olivia Rawlinson, a swimmer aged 13. The team captain was Dane Harrop, while the flag bearer was Harry Creevy, a rifle shooter. The Melbourne Cricket Ground was decorated with creatures to represent the participating countries; the Isle of Man's creature is a basking shark, owing to the high number of sightings of the species in Manx waters. At the 2006 Games, the Isle of Man finished in joint-nineteenth place, winning two medals, including a gold, won by Mark Cavendish. This brought the Isle of Man's total medals won to nine since it first took part in Cardiff in 1958. Before Mark Cavendish won gold in Melbourne, Man had not claimed a gold since 1986, when Nigel Kelly won the shooting individual men's skeet in Edinburgh. Medals Gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dane Harrop
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India At The 2006 Commonwealth Games
India was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 270-member strong contingent comprising 183 sportspersons and 77 officials. 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was the flag bearer for India. Samresh Jung was chosen as the winner of the inaugural David Dixon Award, which honours the outstanding athlete at each Commonwealth Games. Jung won seven medals at the 2006 Games, five gold, one silver and one bronze and set three new Games records along the way. As in the previous 2002 Commonwealth Games, India came fourth overall in the medals table, behind Australia, England and Canada. Medals Gold Shooting: Samaresh Jung and Jaspal Rana, Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol (Pairs) *, Men's 10m Air Pistol (Pairs) * Samaresh Jung and Ronak Pandit, Men's 25m Standard Pistol (Pairs) *Tejaswini Sawant and Avneet Sidhu, Women's 10m Air Rifle (Pairs) *Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang, Men's 10m Air Rifle (Pairs) * Saroja Jhuthu and Sushm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arjun Muralidharan
Arjun Muralidharan (born 14 May 1987) is an Indian swimmer who has earned 15 national titles. He is widely considered as one of the greatest butterfly swimmers of India. He has also been the best swimmer in three consecutive Open National Championships from 2004–2006 and held all three (50, 100, 200 m) butterfly National titles for four years from 2004-2007 as well as all three (50, 100, 200 m) backstroke National titles in the year 2006. In 2006 he became the first Indian swimmer to win a gold medal at a foreign national championship in the Speedo Eastern Canadian Championships held at Montreal. He is also the first Indian swimmer to win a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games held at Bendigo, Australia, in 2004 and a silver medal in the Asian Indoor Games held at Bangkok in 2005. In the 2006 Asian Games held at Doha, Qatar, Arjun smashed his own national record in the 100 m butterfly. Arjun has won several Canadian National Championship medals and a gold medal in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
