Andrew Baildon is a 2x Olympic swimmer (1988 & 1992) from Australia, making his first team at just 16 years old. In 1990 he won multiple gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland, shooting him to stardom in Australia.

In 1996, along with his wife Karen, opened the Andrew Baildon Aquatic Centres. They now have 60 swim instructors teaching over 5,000 swim lessons a week in Queensland.

Andrew is also currently on the Board of Directors at Swimming Australia.

00:00 Intro
00:15 Destro Swim Towers
00:45 Swimnerd Virtual Scoreboard
01:16 Big Influence on Brett
02:00 Australian sprinting history
03:00 1988 First Olympic 50m
03:15 Matt Biondi
05:25 What was sprinting like in 1988?
10:35 Commonwealth Games Auckland
14:00 Be In The Moment
15:30 Denis Cotterell Hitchhiked to 1988 Trials
22:00 What Brett learned from Andrew
24:30 Losing his sister, Kate to breast cancer
25:40 Met wife Karen, created a swim school
28:30 What does it mean to be on the board of Swimming Australia?
29:30 Moving the sport forward
31:30 International Swimming League
32:30 Cody Simpson
34:45 COVID in Australia
37:00 His own kids swim

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