Neil Agius
Personal information | |
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Full name | Neil Agius |
National team | Malta |
Born | 6 June 1986 |
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Coach | Dave Haller[1] |
Neil Agius (born June 6, 1986) is a Maltese former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.[2] He held three Maltese records each in the 400, 800, and 1500 m freestyle until one of them was broken by Edward Caruana Dingli in 2011.[1]
Agius qualified for the men's 400 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA.[1] He broke a Maltese record and posted his entry time of 4:21.24 from the Easter International Swim Meet in Msida.[3][4] As part of his preparations for the Games, Agius attended a 6-week training camp under the guidance of Dave Heller, who coached for the Cardiff Swimming Club.[1] On the first day of the Games, Agius placed forty-sixth from the morning's prelims. Swimming in heat one, he rounded out a field of seven swimmers to last place with a slowest time of 4:22.14, less than a tenth of a second (0.10) off his record.[5][6]
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- Maltese swimmers
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