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Matthew Dunn The Carbine Club of NSW Matthew Dunn Born: September 1973, NSW Carbine Club Member since: 2009 (Member) Current employment: Managing Director, Medley Matthew Dunn’s sporting career started with humble beginnings. He began swimming in an attempt to aid his chronic asthma and went on to become one of Australia’s best all round swimmers and has an impressive list of sporting achievements. Matthew’s first Olympics were in Barcelona (1992) where he was a finalist in the men’s 200m individual medley. He continued his Olympic success at the 1996 Atlanta Games with fourth place finishes in the 400m individual medley and 4x200m freestyle relay as well as securing a fifth place in the men’s 200m individual medley. His final international competition was the Sydney Olympics where he competed in the 200 and 400 individual medley. In the short course arena Matthew dominated the world short course championships on a number of occasions, crowned world champion in the 200m and 400m medley events at the 1995, 1997 and 1999 world short course championships and was awarded the male swimmer of the meet at all three championships. Along the way he has collected a number of world records - he set a new world mark for the 400m individual medley at the Australian Short Course Championships in 1998 and was part of the Australian world record-breaking 4x200m freestyle relay team at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur in 1998 with Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim and Daniel Kowalski. Matthew’s career outside of the pool has also been successful. In 2009 Matthew established Medley, a property development company that provides flexible business space solutions in commercial and industrial property. In 2011 he was appointed to the World Anti-Doping Authorities Athlete Committee and has been a member of the FINA Athletes Commission since 2009. Matthew also holds a Masters of Commerce from Sydney University. .
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