Andrew Lauterstein
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| Full name | Andrew George Lauterstein | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Ando", "Waterstein" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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22 May 1987 Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (200 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Andrew George Lauterstein (born 22 May 1987) is an Australian swimmer and a three-time Olympic medalist.
Lauterstein grew up in Black Rock, Victoria and attended Brighton Grammar School. He has an elder brother and a younger sister. In his youth, Lauterstein was in the Victorian state football team and represented Australia at baseball in youth teams. He quit both sports at the age of 16 to concentrate on swimming. Outside of his swimming life, Lauterstein is a keen aspiring DJ and was one of the 50 nominees for the 2008 Cleo Bachelor of the Year award, which was eventually awarded to Jason Dundas.
At the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, Lauterstein qualified 11th in the heats of the 100-metre butterfly in a time of 52.63 seconds. He managed only a time of 52.99 seconds in the semifinals and was eliminated in 15th place.
In the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, Lauterstein swam the third leg. Australia was fifth at the start of his leg. Lauterstein was the second slowest of the third leg swimmers, and Australia were in last place at the end of his 49.17-second split, which was the 19th fastest out of the 24 swimmers who had a flying start. Australia finished fifth.
In the 4×100-metre medley relay, Lauterstein swam the butterfly leg and started his split with Australia in second place behind Japan. Lauterstein swam the fifth fastest butterfly leg with a split of 52.63 seconds and was overtaken by his Russian counterpart, leaving Australia third at the last change. Eamon Sullivan anchored Australia to gold by overtaking his Japanese and Russian counterparts.
In the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he swam in both the 4×100-metre freestyle relay and the 100-metre butterfly. He swam the second leg of the final in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, winning a bronze medal. In the 100-metre butterfly, Lauterstein swam a personal best and Australian record in each of the three stages, and qualified for the final with the third fastest qualifying time. He took the bronze medal in the final with a time of 51.12 seconds in a race where US sensation Michael Phelps won his 7th gold medal of the Games. Lauterstein edged out world record holder Ian Crocker for the bronze by just 0.01 of a second. As of the 2016 Games, he is still the most recent bronze medalist in this event as a result of ties for silver in 2012 and 2016. Lauterstein also won a silver medal in 4×100-metre medley relay in which he swam the butterfly leg.
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