Patrick Murphy (born 22 February 1984) is an Australian sprint freestyle and

backstroke Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimm ...

swimmer. He is an Australian relay team veteran since 2005. He has four FINA world championship medals and two Olympic bronze medals. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. In April 2014, Murphy was named an Athlete Role Model for the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Youth Olympic Games, Summer Youth Olympic Games, an ...

in Nanjing, China.

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1984 births Living people Olympic swimmers of Australia Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Australia Australian male backstroke swimmers Olympic bronze medalists in swimming Australian male freestyle swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Australian Institute of Sport swimmers Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Universiade bronze medalists for Australia Universiade medalists in swimming Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade Sportspeople from Albury Sportsmen from New South Wales {{Australia-swimming-bio-stub

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