Ben Treffers
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Ben Treffers
OR:
Ben Treffers on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Benjamin Treffers (born 15 August 1991) is an Australian competitive
swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...
who has participated in the FINA World Championships and Commonwealth Games. Treffers is a former Australian Record Holder and Commonwealth Champion in the 50m
backstroke Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four Swimming (sport), swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disa ...
event. Treffers also won the title of 2012 Australian Champion in the 50m
backstroke Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four Swimming (sport), swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disa ...
event and is trained by the
Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ...
. Coached by John Fowlie, Treffers won the title of 2011 Australian Champion in the Men's 100m Backstroke event and represented Australia at the 2011 World Championships in
Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...
, having narrowly missed out on a place at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In 2018, Ben was appointed a brand ambassador for men's active lifestyle wea
SQD Athletica
He ha
blogged about his preparations
for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Treffers is the son of Mark Treffers, who won a gold medal swimming for New Zealand at the
1974 British Commonwealth Games The 1974 British Commonwealth Games () were held in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 24 January to 2 February 1974. The bid vote was held in Edinburgh at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games. The event was officially named "the friendly games". T ...
, and the nephew of Lynne Dalzell and Paul Rowe, who swam internationally for New Zealand and Australia, respectively.


See also

* List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Treffers, Ben 1991 births Australian male backstroke swimmers Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games swimmers for Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists in swimming Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists in swimming Living people People educated at Canberra Grammar School Sportspeople from Canberra Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Australian people of New Zealand descent Summer World University Games medalists in swimming FISU World University Games gold medalists for Australia FISU World University Games silver medalists for Australia Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade 21st-century Australian sportsmen Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games