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Canadian swimmer (born 1954)
Brian Phillips
Full name Brian Phillips National team Canada Born (1954-03-30 ) March 30, 1954 (age 70)
Winnipeg ,
Manitoba Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) Weight 80 kg (176 lb) Sport
Swimming Strokes
Freestyle
Brian Phillips (born March 30, 1954) is a Canadian former competitive
swimmer who won four medals in major international championship events during the early 1970s. Phillips won a total of six medals in major international championships, including the
FINA World Championships ,
Pan American Games and
Commonwealth Games .
As a 17-year-old at the
1971 Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia, Phillips won silver medals as a member of the second-place Canadian teams in the
4x100-metre freestyle and
4x200-metre freestyle relay events. The following year, he represented Canada at the
1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, where he competed in three events. He was again a member of the Canadian relay teams in the 4x100 and 4x200-metre freestyle relay events, finishing fifth and seventh, respectively, in the event finals.
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In 1973, he won a bronze medal swimming for the Canadian team in the
men's 4×100-metre medley relay at the
1973 World Aquatics Championships in Belgrade. In his final international appearance at the
1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, he won a gold medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay with teammates
Bruce Robertson ,
Gary MacDonald and
Ian MacKenzie , and another gold in the 4x100-metre medley relay with Robertson,
Steve Pickell and
William Mahony . Individually, he also won a bronze in the men's 100-metre freestyle.
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1962–1966: 4×110 yards
1970–present: 4×100 metres
1962 :
Dickson ,
Rose ,
Doak ,
Phelps (
AUS )
1966 :
Dickson ,
Ryan ,
Wenden ,
Windle (
AUS )
1970 :
White ,
Rogers ,
Wenden ,
Devenish (
AUS )
1974 :
Phillips ,
Robertson ,
MacDonald ,
MacKenzie (
CAN )
1978 :
Sawchuk ,
MacDonald ,
Smith ,
Szmidt (
CAN )
1982 :
Brewer ,
Fasala ,
Delany ,
Brooks (
AUS )
1986 :
Fasala ,
Stockwell ,
Renshaw ,
Brooks (
AUS )
1990 :
Baildon ,
Fydler ,
Vander-Wal ,
Cooper (
AUS )
1994 :
Baildon ,
Fydler ,
Lange ,
Sheehan (
AUS )
1998 :
Callus ,
Fydler ,
Thorpe ,
Klim (
AUS )
2002 :
Callus ,
Pearson ,
Hackett ,
Thorpe (
AUS )
2006 :
Zandberg ,
Ferns ,
Schoeman ,
Neethling (
RSA )
2010 :
Richardson ,
Sullivan ,
D'Orsogna ,
Magnussen (
AUS )
2014 :
D'Orsogna ,
Abood ,
Magnussen ,
McEvoy (
AUS )
2018 :
McEvoy ,
Magnussen ,
Cartwright ,
Chalmers (
AUS )
2022 :
Southam ,
Incerti ,
Yang ,
Chalmers (
AUS )
1934: 3×100 yards
1938 – 1954: 3×110 yards
1958 – 1966: 4×110 yards
1970 – present: 4×100 metres
1934 :
Gazell ,
Burleigh ,
Puddy (
CAN )
1938 :
Dove ,
Davies ,
Taylor (
ENG )
1950 :
Hale ,
Kendall ,
Romain (
ENG )
1954 :
Weld ,
Hawkins ,
Henricks (
AUS )
1958 :
Chapman ,
Monckton ,
Devitt ,
Gathercole (
AUS )
1962 :
Dickson ,
O'Brien ,
Carroll ,
Berry (
AUS )
1966 :
Gilchrist ,
Chase ,
Hutton ,
Jacks (
CAN )
1970 :
MacDonald ,
Kasting ,
Mahony ,
Kennedy (
CAN )
1974 :
Phillips ,
Robertson ,
Pickell ,
Mahony (
CAN )
1978 :
Sawchuk ,
Thompson ,
Smith ,
Tapp (
CAN )
1982 :
Orbell ,
Sieben ,
Brooks ,
Evans (
AUS )
1986 :
Tewksbury ,
Davis ,
Ponting ,
Baumann (
CAN )
1990 :
Cleveland ,
Gery ,
Tewksbury ,
Ponting (
CAN )
1994 :
Fydler ,
Rogers ,
Miller ,
Dewick (
AUS )
1998 :
Watson ,
Cowley ,
Huegill ,
Klim (
AUS )
2002 :
Welsh ,
Piper ,
Huegill ,
Thorpe (
AUS )
2006 :
Welsh ,
Rickard ,
Klim ,
Sullivan (
AUS )
2010 :
Delaney ,
Rickard ,
Huegill ,
Sullivan (
AUS )
2014 :
Walker-Hebborn ,
Peaty ,
Barrett ,
Brown (
ENG )
2018 :
Larkin ,
Packard ,
Irvine ,
Chalmers (
AUS )
2022 :
Williams ,
Wilby ,
Guy ,
Dean (
ENG )