Brad Cooper

About Brad Cooper

In the 400M freestyle, he earned a gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Bradford Paul Cooper was a former Australian backstroke and freestyle swimmer of the 1970s, who won a gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics. The smallest gap ever decided on an Olympic swimming final, but later received a gold medal after the winner, American Rick DeMont, a person with asthma, was disqualified on urine analysis tests. he tested positive for a trace of the banned substance. stimulant ephedrine. The second of three brothers, Cooper was born in Singapore to Australian parents but moved with his family to Rockhampton, Queensland when he was just 5 years old. There, his father is the director of a cinema center and the family also goes water skiing on weekends. The Cooper brothers all learned to swim early and joined the Rockhampton Swim Club, but it was Brad who shone from the start, winning his first medal in central Queensland at the age of seven.

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Trivia

In 1990 he was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.

Brad Cooper before fame

He was a member of the Rockhampton Swimming Club since he was a child, and at the age of seven, he won his first major tournament in Queensland.

Achievement of Brad Cooper

He was inducted into Sport Australia's Hall of Fame in 1990.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Brad Cooper family life

He was born in Singapore but migrated to Queensland with his family when he was a child.

Associations of Brad Cooper

In the 1972 Olympics, he came in second place but was awarded the gold medal after first-place finisher Rick DeMont was disqualified for using ephedrine.

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