Matthew Temple (swimmer)
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 June 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Marion Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Peter Bishop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Matthew Temple (born 20 June 1999) is an Australian swimmer. He is the Oceanian record and Australian record holder in the long course 100 metre butterfly with a time of 50.45 seconds. He competed in the men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships, placing 10th in his semi final. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he placed fifth in the 100 metre butterfly with a time of 50.92 seconds in the final.
Temple achieved qualifying times for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games in the 100 metre butterfly at the 2022 Australian Swimming Championships, held in Adelaide in May, winning the event 0.17 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Kyle Chalmers with a time of 51.50 seconds.
At the 2022 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships, held in August in Sydney, Temple won the gold medal in the 50 metre butterfly, with a personal best time of 22.70 seconds, and the 100 metre butterfly, with a 50.09, and the bronze medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 46.80 seconds.
World records
Short course metres
| No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Status | Ref |
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| 1 | 4x100 m medley relay | 3:18.98 | 2022 World Championships (25 m) | Melbourne, Australia | 18 December 2022 | Current |
a split 48.34 (butterfly leg); with Isaac Cooper (backstroke leg), Joshua Yong (breaststroke leg), Kyle Chalmers (freestyle leg)