Gary O'Toole
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Full name | Gary Charles O'Toole | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Irish | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1968-08-06) 6 August 1968 (age 56) Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke, Medley | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Gary O'Toole is a retired Irish Olympic swimmer. He represented Ireland at the Seoul and Barcelona Games.[1]
While studying at University College Dublin, O'Toole won a 200 m breaststroke silver medal at the 1989 European Long Course Championships in Bonn. He also won a gold medal at the World University Championships in 1991 when representing University College Dublin and UCD. He helped to break 5 National relay records, including Short Course and Long Course.[2]
As a prominent member of the Irish Amateur Swimming Association, O'Toole had been approached to make representations on behalf of the victims of the George Gibney scandal.[3] Gibney, who coached O'Toole until he became aware of these allegations, criticised O'Toole publicly during the 1992 Olympics. His complaints were ignored and led to a major investigation into the incidents and ultimately to the disbandment of the IASA and the creation of Swim Ireland.[4]
Since his retirement from professional swimming, O'Toole has been a practising Orthopedic surgeon with a specialist interest in adult arthritis (both hip and knee) and knee sports injuries. He also has a keen interest in musculoskeletal cancer (bone and soft tissue tumours).[5] He continued to provide expert analysis for RTÉ Sport's Olympic swimming coverage.[6][7]
References
- ^ "Gary O'Toole". Sports Reference. 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
- ^ "Irish Records". Swim Ireland. Archived from the original on 24 September 2008 – via WayBack Machine.
- ^ McCarthy, Justine (7 February 1998). "The Drowning of the Truth". Independent.ie.
- ^ "Swim Ireland move to prevent early release". Independent.ie. Archived from the original on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
- ^ "Mr Gary O'Toole". Beacon Hospital.
- ^ RTÉ's Olympic TV coverage until 2012Archived 12 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Darragh Maloney interviews Gary O'Toole (2012)". RTÉ Archives. 2012.
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- 1959: Hans-Joachim Tröger (FRG)
- 1961: Yuriy Funikov (URS)
- 1963: Ivan Karetnikov (URS)
- 1965: Osamu Tsurumine (JPN)
- 1967: Ken Merten (USA)
- 1970: Rick Colella (USA)
- 1973: Nikolay Pankin (URS)
- 1977: Graham Smith (CAN)
- 1979: Vladimir Tarasov (URS)
- 1981: Arsens Miskarovs (URS)
- 1983: Robertas Žulpa (URS)
- 1985: John Moffet (USA)
- 1987: Alexandre Yokochi (POR)
- 1991: Gary O'Toole (IRL)
- 1993: Mario González (CUB)
- 1995: Aleksandr Tkachev (RUS)
- 1997: Chikara Nakashita (JPN)
- 1999: Roman Makarov (RUS)
- 2001: Davide Rummolo (ITA)
- 2003: Sergei Gerasimov (RUS)
- 2005: Sławomir Kuczko (POL)
- 2007: Grigory Falko (RUS)
- 2009: Ihor Borysyk (UKR)
- 2011: Giedrius Titenis (LTU) / Glenn Snyders (NZL)
- 2013: Vyacheslav Sinkevich (RUS)
- 2015: Josh Prenot (USA)
- 2017: Andrew Wilson (USA)
- 2019: Kirill Prigoda (RUS)
- 2021: Qin Haiyang (CHN)