He broke six world records in four different events during the 2012 Australian national swimming championships.
In the years 2008/09 and 2009/10, Shliakhtenko also won the swimming championship (50m) of her university.
Since 2008, the local swimming championships carry his name.
Competitive national swimming championships were first held in 1894.
Summer Sanders won her first national swimming championship tonight.
It also won the swimming national championship which made a total of 5 championship titles in the same year.
In 1997, Perales won her first national swimming championship.
As a teenager he represented Great Britain in international swimming championships.
He started his sporting life as a swimmer, finishing second in the under-14 Kenyan swimming championship.
It was two and a half years ago at the United States spring swimming championships in Nashville.
