Aussie pioneer Carlile dies
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FORBES Carlile, a pioneering influence in the sport of swimming and the only person to have represented Australia at an Olympics first as a coach and then as an athlete, has died. He was 95.
The Australian Olympic Committee yesterday said Carlile died after spending three weeks in a Sydney hospital. Carlile was credited with developing elite training techniques, starting Australia’s first commercial swimming school and coaching 52 swimmers to an elite international level — a collection of athletes, including Shane Gould, who won 12 Olympic gold medals and set 31 world records. He was a swimming coach for Australia at the 1948 London Olympics, and four years later became the first Australian to compete in modern pentathlon at the games.
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