Adam Lucas (born 27 October 1983) is an Australian

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who specialized in

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(IM) events. He remains a well respected swimmer amongst the Western Australian and Tasmanian community, and holds a regional short course record in the 200 m individual medley. He also notched a bronze medal in the same stroke at the

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in Daegu, South Korea, with a personal best of 2:03.06. He represented Australia in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, swimming in the 200m IM. Lucas is a member of West Coast Swim Club in Perth, and is coached and trained by Grant Stoelwinder.

Personal

Adam Lucas was born on 27 October 1983 in

Hobart, Tasmania Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-smalle ...

. He attended St Mark’s Anglican Community School in

Hillarys, Western Australia Hillarys is a northern coastal suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, in the local government area of the City of Joondalup. It is part of the Whitfords precinct, and is located 21 km north-northwest of Perth's central b ...

, where he was captain of their ACC Swim Team. He graduated from St. Mark's in 2000.

Swimming career

Lucas qualified for the men's 200 m individual medley at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

in Athens, by clearing a FINA A-standard entry time of 2:01.94 from the Olympic trials in Sydney. He challenged seven other swimmers on the seventh heat, including top medal favorite

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. Lucas raced to seventh place by 0.37 of a second behind three-time Olympian

Tamás Kerékjártó Tamás Kerékjártó (born 9 July 1979 in Miskolc) is a Hungary, Hungarian swimmer. He represented his home country at the Hungary at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996, Hungary at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 and Hungary at the 2008 Summer Olympi ...

of Hungary in 2:02.12, but missed the semifinals by a hundredth of a second (0.01), as he placed seventeenth overall in the preliminaries. At the

2005 FINA World Championships The 2005 World Aquatics Championships (french: Championnats du monde de natation 2005) or the XI FINA World Championships were held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from July 16 to July 31, 2005. They took place in Parc Jean-Drapeau on Saint Helen's I ...

in Montreal, Canada, Lucas rebounded another loss by missing the final of the 200 m individual medley, but urged to break a 2:02 barrier in 2:01.99. Lucas sought his bid to qualify for the

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in Beijing. He finished second behind

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in 2:01.84 at the Olympic trials, but failed to attain a FINA A-cut of 2:01.40, just 0.34 of a second short of his entry time. On the same year, Lucas was honoured for his "Speedo Services to the Australian Swimming Team" at the Telstra Swimmer of the Year Awards in Sydney, following his retirement from the sport. In 2011, Lucas was inducted into the Western Australian Amateur Swimming Association's Hall of Fame.

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