Cody Simpson, born on 11 January 1997 in Benowa on the Gold Coast of Queensland, is an Australian singer and actor who is also a former competitive swimmer. He won two gold medals at the 2009 Queensland Swimming Championships as a boy, then turned to music, releasing solo albums from 2012 and playing the lead role of Dmitry in the Broadway musical Anastasia. In 2019 he returned to the pool, training with the University of Southern California's Trojan Swim Elite team and later at Griffith University. He narrowly missed the Tokyo Olympic team in 2021 and was selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where he swam in the heats of the 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay that won gold and the medley relay that won silver. He retired from competitive swimming in June 2024 after failing to qualify for the Paris Olympics.
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is an Australian singer, actor, and a former competitive swimmer
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he had qualified for the Australian Olympic trials in the 100 metre butterfly
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His 48.86 split time helped Australia into the final, where they earned a gold medal.
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