Forbes Carlile

Forbes Carlile

Forbes Carlile MBE (born June 3 1921 in Armadale, Victoria) was Australia's first post-World War II Olympics swimming coach and later Australia's first competitor in the modern pentathlon at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He remains the only person to have coached and later competed at the Olympic Games.

Carlile is best known as a pioneer in swimming coaching. Together with his wife, Ursula, and their assistant, Tom Green, he produced many notable olympians such as Shane Gould, Karen Moras, Gail Neall, John Davies, Terry Gathercole and Ian O'Brien. In 1972, 15-year-old Gould held world records simultaneously in the 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500 metres freestyle and the 200m individual medley.

He first started coaching in 1946 at the Palm Beach rock pool, north of Sydney. Success there led to him being appointed as the Australian swimming coach for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London and he then went on to be head Australian coach again at the 1956 Games in Melbourne and Scientific Advisor in the 1960 Games in Rome. At the 1964 Games he was head coach for the Dutch Olympic team. He was head Australian swimming coach at the Swimming World Championships in Belgrade in 1973 which produced nine Australian World Champions. He withdrew as head coach at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Carlile studied at The Scots College, Sydney and the University of Sydneycite encyclopedia| editor = Suzannah Pearce| encyclopedia = Who's Who in Australia Live!| title = CARLILE Forbes Robert| accessdate = 2007-09-23| date = 2006-11-17| year = 2007| publisher = Crown Content Pty Ltd| location = North Melbourne, Vic] under Professor Frank Cotton, graduating with a Masters of Science and later lecturing there in human physiology. His 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. He developed techniques such as even-paced swimming and the use of two-beat kicks for long-distance events.

His book, "Forbes Carlile on Swimming" (London. 1963), was the first modern book on competitive swimming with its study of "tapering" and the historical development of the crawl. Other books by Carlile include: "A History of Crawl Stroke Techniques to the 1960s: An Australian Perspective" and "A History of Australian Swimming Training".

In 1977, Carlile was awarded an MBE and was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Other awards include the Queens Jubilee Medal (1977), Sport Australia Hall of Fame (1988), ASI Life Member (2003) and NSSA Hall of Fame (2003).

His swimming school still operates today in a number of locations in and around Sydney.

ee also

*Australian Olympic medalists in Swimming

References


* [http://www.ishof.org/76fcarlile.html International Swimming Hall of Fame]
* [http://www.mosmanis.info/walloffame/web/sportsperson.php?id=21 Mosman Sporting Wall of Fame]
* [http://www.carlile.com.au/ Carlile Swimming School website]
* [http://www.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/2002/sportsf/s686461.asp "The Science of Winning"] ABC Radio National Interview.(2002).

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