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| Matthew
TEMPLE |
| Sport |
Swimming |
| NOC |
Australia
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| Gender | Men |
| Born | 20 Jun 1999
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Sport Specific Information |
Club / Team |
South Australian Sports Institute [SASI]: Adelaide, SA, AUS |
General Interest |
Hobbies |
Cycling, sports, travel, cars, supporting the Richmond Tigers Australian rules football team. (upstart.net.au, 25 Sep 2019; vis.org.au, 23 Oct 2018) |
Most influential person in career |
His parents. (sportingnews.com, 29 Apr 2021) |
Hero / Idol |
Australian rules football player Matthew Richardson. (vis.org.au, 23 Oct 2018) |
Awards and honours |
In 2021 he received the John Marshall Trophy for Freestyle, the Andrew Lauterstein Trophy for Butterfly, and the Nicole Livingstone Trophy as the Victorian Swimmer of the Year at the Swimming Victoria Awards in Australia. (Nunawading Swimming Club Facebook page, 02 Jul 2021)
In 2019 he was named Australian Institute of Sport [AIS] Discovery of the Year at the Swimming Australia Awards. (swimming.org.au, 28 Jul 2019)
In 2018 he received the Andrew Lauterstein Trophy for Butterfly at the Swimming Victoria Awards in Australia. (7news.com.au, 25 Nov 2019) |
Sporting philosophy / motto |
"If it has to be, it's up to me." (vis.org.au, 23 Oct 2018) |
Injuries |
In 2019 his training was disrupted after he broke three fingers when the bonnet of his car fell on his hand. He was restricted to kicking training for two months. (swimming.org.au, 20 Jul 2019) |
Sport Specific Information |
Why this sport? |
He initially played Australian rules football. He took up swimming as a hobby and eventually gave up Australian rules football to pursue swimming. |
When and where did you begin this sport? |
His earliest memory of learning to swim is from when he used to go on riverside camping outings with his family and friends. He later began swimming competitively as a teenager in Victoria, Australia. |
Further Personal Information |
Occupation |
Athlete |
General Interest |
Nicknames |
Matt (Instagram profile, 01 Jan 2020) |
Other information |
DISCOVERING BUTTERFLY
Part of his reason for taking up butterfly was so that he could be on the medley relay team with his friends. He noticed that with butterfly being the 'hardest' stroke, there was less competition for the butterfly leg of the relay. "I was at a junior club when I first started swimming. At the time, me and my mate did different strokes and a lot of focus at that club was on relays. We would be in the same relay, swimming different strokes. That's another reason why I've pursued butterfly, to swim in the relays with other people." (sportingnews.com, 29 Apr 2021)
EARLY YEARS
He considered quitting the sport at about age 16 after several of his friends left the club he was swimming at in Greensborough, VIC, Australia. In the end, to make sure he kept swimming, his family decided that they would move to Nunawading so that he could train at the Nunawading Swim Club under coach Scott Talbot. To make that possible, his mother would drive him for over an hour from his school, which was still in Greensborough, to Nunawading to make it to training on time. "I was in year 12, and it got to that stage where I wasn't enjoying it anymore. A couple of my friends left so I had to make the call to stop or continue. My friend Andrew Rice had moved to Nunawading [Swim Club in Melbourne, VIC, Australia] like a year before. My family and I had a few discussions, and we thought we may as well give it a crack and move over to Nunawading. My dad made me talk to one of his mates who was a cyclist, and he pretty much told me, 'You can't swim when you're 40, swim now, have a crack now'. I think I was 17 at the time and made the move across to Nunawading." (Olivia Dikranis YouTube channel, 14 Sep 2021; sportingnews.com, 29 Apr 2021; upstart.net.au, 25 Sep 2019; swimming.org.au, 20 Jul 2019) |
Further Personal Information |
Languages |
English |
Sport Specific Information |
Name of coach |
Peter Bishop [club]; Rohan Taylor [national] |
Olympic Games |
| Rank |
Year |
Venue |
Event |
Result |
| 18 |
2021 |
Tokyo, JPN |
200m Butterfly |
1:56.25 |
| 5 |
2021 |
Tokyo, JPN |
100m Butterfly |
50.92 |
| 3 |
2021 |
Tokyo, JPN |
4 x 100m Freestyle Relay |
3:10.22 |
| 3 |
2021 |
Tokyo, JPN |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
3:38.95 |
| 5 |
2021 |
Tokyo, JPN |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
3:29.60 |
World Championships |
| Rank |
Year |
Venue |
Event |
Result |
| Heats |
2023 |
Fukuoka, JPN |
200m Butterfly |
1:56.51 |
| 4 |
2023 |
Fukuoka, JPN |
100m Butterfly |
50.81 |
| 1 |
2023 |
Fukuoka, JPN |
4 x 100m Freestyle Relay |
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| 2 |
2023 |
Fukuoka, JPN |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
3:39.03 |
| 5 |
2022 |
Budapest, HUN |
100m Butterfly |
51.15 |
| 4 |
2022 |
Budapest, HUN |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
3:31.81 |
| 2 |
2022 |
Budapest, HUN |
4 x 100m Freestyle Relay |
3:10.80 |
| 2 |
2022 |
Budapest, HUN |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
3:41.34 |
| Semifinal |
2019 |
Gwangju, KOR |
200m Butterfly |
1:56.52 |
| 6 |
2019 |
Gwangju, KOR |
100m Butterfly |
51.51 |
| 5 |
2019 |
Gwangju, KOR |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
3:30.42 |
| 1 |
2019 |
Gwangju, KOR |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
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World Championships Short Course |
| Rank |
Year |
Venue |
Event |
Result |
| 7 |
2022 |
Melbourne, VIC, AUS |
100m Butterfly |
49.67 |
| Semifinal |
2022 |
Melbourne, VIC, AUS |
50m Butterfly |
22.37 |
| Semifinal |
2022 |
Melbourne, VIC, AUS |
100m Freestyle |
46.63 |
| 2 |
2022 |
Melbourne, VIC, AUS |
4 x 50m Freestyle Relay |
1:28.03 |
| 1 |
2022 |
Melbourne, VIC, AUS |
4 x 50m Freestyle Relay |
1:23.44 |
| 2 |
2022 |
Melbourne, VIC, AUS |
4 x 100m Freestyle Relay |
3:04.63 |
| 3 |
2022 |
Melbourne, VIC, AUS |
4 x 50m Medley Relay |
1:30.81 |
| 1 |
2022 |
Melbourne, VIC, AUS |
4 x 100m Medley Relay |
3:18.98 |
World Cup |
| Rank |
Year |
Venue |
Event |
Result |
| 8 |
2022 |
Indianapolis, IN, USA |
50m Butterfly |
22.78 |
| 5 |
2022 |
Indianapolis, IN, USA |
100m Butterfly |
50.19 |
| 5 |
2022 |
Indianapolis, IN, USA |
200m Butterfly |
1:52.06 |
| 2 |
2022 |
Toronto, ON, CAN |
100m Butterfly |
49.68 |
| 7 |
2022 |
Toronto, ON, CAN |
50m Freestyle |
21.63 |
| 5 |
2022 |
Toronto, ON, CAN |
50m Butterfly |
22.70 |
| 23 |
2021 |
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Overall Ranking |
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| 5 |
2021 |
Berlin, GER |
100m Freestyle |
47.19 |
| 6 |
2021 |
Berlin, GER |
200m Freestyle |
1:45.07 |
| 5 |
2021 |
Berlin, GER |
50m Butterfly |
22.77 |
| 4 |
2021 |
Budapest, HUN |
100m Butterfly |
50.77 |
| 7 |
2021 |
Budapest, HUN |
50m Freestyle |
21.53 |
| 7 |
2021 |
Budapest, HUN |
100m Freestyle |
47.29 |
| 57 |
2018 |
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Overall Ranking |
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| 2 |
2018 |
Singapore, SGP |
100m Butterfly |
50.60 |
| 6 |
2018 |
Singapore, SGP |
200m Butterfly |
1:54.64 |
| 4 |
2018 |
Tokyo, JPN |
100m Butterfly |
51.08 |
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