Jim Piper

Personal information
Full name	Jim Alan Piper
National team	Australia
Born	(1981-08-13) 13 August 1981 (age 44) Campbelltown, New South Wales
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Medal record Men's swimming Representing Australia World Championships (SC) 2002 Moscow 200 m breaststroke 2002 Moscow 4×100 m medley Pan Pacific Championships 2002 Yokohama 200 m breaststroke 2002 Yokohama 4×100 m medley 2002 Yokohama 100 m breaststroke Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester 200 m breaststroke 2002 Manchester 4 x 100 m medley relay 2006 Melbourne 200 m breaststroke

Jim Alan Piper (born 13 August 1981)^[1] is a former Olympic breaststroke swimmer from Australia. He swam for Australia at the:

• Olympics: 2004
• World Championships: 2003, 2005, 2007
• Commonwealth Games: 2002, 2006
• Pan Pacific Championships: 2002^[2]
• Short Course Worlds: 2002

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, he finished 19th in the 100-metre breaststroke and was a member of Australia's 9th-place men's 4×100-metre medley relay team. He also reached and swam in the final heat of the 200-metre breaststroke, where he was disqualified for using an illegal kick.^[3]

At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, he won the 200-metre breaststroke. Four years later, at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, he finished third in the event.

At the 2002 Short Course Worlds, he won the 200-metre breaststroke in a new meet record (2:07.16).^[4]

As of 2013, he is a board member of Swimming Western Australia, a state federation of Swimming Australia.^[5]

See also

• List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)

References

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