Cameron Colin Prosser (born 7 March 1985) is an Australian

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Career

Prosser was born in

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, and first competed for Australia at the 2006 Oceania Swimming Championships in

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where he won gold medals in the 50 and 100 metre freestyle events and with

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, Tim La Forest and

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won gold in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, setting a new championship record in each event. In 2009, at the

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, Prosser won silver in the

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, finished in 5th in the 50 metre freestyle and with Tom Miller, Gene Kubala and Lloyd Townsing was disqualified in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay. Earlier at the 2009 Australian Swimming Championships, Prosser alongside Townsing, Ryan Nolan and Justin Griggs set an Australian Championship record in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay with a 3:20.67. Prosser's anchor leg was swum in 48.99. Five months later, the same Melbourne Vicentre quartet set an Australian All Comers record in the same event at the 2009 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships. His breakthrough was at the

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where Prosser won the silver in the 50 metre freestyle behind

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. This result qualified him for the

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and the

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. At the Pan Pacs, held in

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in August, Prosser finished 8th in the 50 metre freestyle and finished 9th in heats of the

. (Note: due to the fact that Prosser finished behind three other Australians,

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, and

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he was ineligible to contest the B final.) However, when Prosser teamed up with Richardson, Sullivan, and Magnussen they won silver in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, finishing behind the United States. At the Commonwealth Games in

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, Prosser finished 5th in 50 metre freestyle in 22.46 and when teamed up with Richardson, Magnussen and

Tommaso D'Orsogna Tommaso William D'Orsogna (born 29 December 1990) is an Australian freestyle swimmer. He won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's 4×100-metre medley relay. He also won gold in that event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in a G ...

finished as the fastest qualifier for the final in the heats of the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay in 3:15.18. Sullivan replaced Prosser and the team went on to win in the final in a Games record time of 3:13.92.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Prosser, Cameron 1985 births Living people Swimmers from Melbourne Australian male freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games swimmers for Australia Commonwealth Games gold medallists in swimming Summer World University Games medalists in swimming FISU World University Games silver medalists for Australia Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Sportsmen from Victoria (state) 21st-century Australian sportsmen