1. Forbes Carlile MBE was Australia's first post-World War II Olympics swimming coach and later Australia's first competitor in the modern pentathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
11 Facts About Forbes Carlile
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Forbes Carlile remains the only person to have coached and later competed at the Olympic Games.
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Forbes Carlile started testing his physiological knowledge in 1944 at the Enfield pool with two young schoolboys from Canterbury Boys' High School.
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Forbes Carlile first started coaching in 1946 at the Palm Beach rock pool, north of Sydney.
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Forbes Carlile was head Australian swimming coach at the Swimming World Championships in Belgrade in 1973.
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Forbes Carlile withdrew as head coach at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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Forbes Carlile studied at The Scots College, Sydney and the University of Sydney under Professor Frank Cotton, graduating with a Masters of Science and later lecturing there in human physiology.
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Forbes Carlile's pioneering work on elite athlete training methods included interval workouts, pace clocks and log books, heart rate tests, training under stress and T Wave studies of the ventricles.
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Forbes Carlile developed techniques such as even-paced swimming and the use of two-beat kicks for long-distance events.
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In 1977, Forbes Carlile was awarded an MBE and was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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Forbes Carlile died aged 95 on 2 August 2016 in a Sydney hospital after a short illness.