Jack Cartwright
Australian swimmer (born 1998)
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Jack Cartwright (born 22 September 1998) is an Australian swimmer.
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 September 1998 Auchenflower, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Dean Boxall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He is scheduled to make his Olympics debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris on 27 July 2024.
Early life and career
Cartwright was raised in Biloela, Queensland where during his childhood he would travel to Gladstone for training, moving to the city in 2008 where he trained with the Gladstone Gladiators.[1][2]
After securing a scholarship, Cartwright relocated to Brisbane in 2014 to attend private Lutheran school St Peters College.[2]
At the 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Cartwright won gold medals in the 200 metre freestyle, 100 metre freestyle (where he set a Championships record of 48.91 seconds in the preliminaries), 50 metre freestyle, and the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, a silver medal in 4×100 metre freestyle relay, and a bronze medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay.[3]
He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.[4][5]
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Cartwright won two gold medals as part of the teams who won the 4x100m freestyle relay and the 4x100m medley relay.[2][6]
Cartwright was part of the winning 4 x 100 metre relay and the 4 x 100 metre freestyle teams at the 2022 and 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest and Fukushima respectively, winning a collective total of three gold medals and one silver medal.[7][8] Following this success, Cartwright won another silver medal at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha as part of the mixed 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay team.[9]
Following the 2024 Australian Swimming Trials in Brisbane, Cartwright was named as part of the Australian swimming team to compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[10]
World records
Long course metres
| No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Status | Ref |
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| 1 | 4x100 m mixed freestyle relay[a] | 3:19.38 | 2022 World Aquatics Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 24 June 2022 | Former | [11] |
| 2 | 4x100 m mixed freestyle relay[b] | 3:18.83 | 2023 World Aquatics Championships | Fukuoka, Japan | 29 July 2023 | Former | [12] |
Records not set in finals: h – heat;
a split 48.12 (1st leg); with Kyle Chalmers (2nd leg), Madison Wilson (3rd leg), Mollie O'Callaghan (4th leg)
b split 48.14 (1st leg); with Kyle Chalmers (2nd leg), Shayna Jack (3rd leg), Mollie O'Callaghan (4th leg)
