Philip John Rogers (born 24 April 1971) is a former

breaststroke Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s ...

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who competed in three consecutive

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for Australia, starting in

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. He was an

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scholarship holder. At his Olympic debut he won the bronze medal in the 100-metre breaststroke, followed by a bronze in 1996 in the 4x100-metre medley relay. During his last Olympic appearance, at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

in Sydney, he was the oldest member of the Australian Swimming team, at age 29.

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1971 births Living people Australian male breaststroke swimmers Sportspeople from Adelaide Olympic swimmers of Australia Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Australian Institute of Sport swimmers World record setters in swimming Olympic bronze medalists in swimming World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Swimmers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming 20th-century Australian people {{Australia-swimming-bio-stub

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