Benjamin Treffers (born 15 August 1991) is an Australian competitive

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who has participated in the FINA world championships and Commonwealth Games. Treffers is the current Australian Record Holder in the 50m

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event Treffers also won the title of 2012 Australian Champion in the 50m

event and is trained by the

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. Coached by John Fowlie, Treffers won the title of 2011 Australian Champion in the Men's 100m Backstroke event and represented Australia at the 2011 World Championships in

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, having narrowly missed out on a place at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In 2018, Ben was appointed a brand ambassador for men's active lifestyle wea
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He ha
blogged about his preparations
for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Treffers is the son of Mark Treffers, who won a gold medal swimming for New Zealand at the

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, and the nephew of Lynne Dalzell and Paul Rowe, who swam internationally for New Zealand and Australia, respectively.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Treffers, Ben 1991 births Australian male backstroke swimmers Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Living people People educated at Canberra Grammar School People from Canberra Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Australian people of New Zealand descent Universiade medalists in swimming FISU World University Games gold medalists for Australia Universiade silver medalists for Australia Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade 21st-century Australian people Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

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