Episode Eight: Rob Woodhouse - Olympic Champion on the 'Hardest swim of my life'

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The Blue Room

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A podcast about swimming in the great outdoors, the awe that brings, the amazing grass-roots community groups and buddies who swim and dip together, including the personalities in those pods and ties that bind us.

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Episode Eight: Rob Woodhouse - Olympic Champion on the 'Hardest swim of my life'

The Blue Room

27 minutes 26 seconds

3 weeks ago

Episode Eight: Rob Woodhouse - Olympic Champion on the 'Hardest swim of my life'

Rob Woodhouse is an Olympic champion winning bronze in the 400m Men's Individual Medley at the 1984 games. But he's also just conquered what he says was the 'hardest swim of his life'. Rob is Swimming Australia's CEO.

He talks with the Blue Room about the Oceans Seven and discusses the very serious challenge of turning around the rate of drownings in Ausrtralia, what can be done?

This episode features:

Rob Woodhouse, chief executive officer of Swimming Australia.

National Drowning Report 2025 (pdf)

https://www.royallifesaving.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/118273/National-Drowning-Report-2025-V2.pdf

Swimming Australia

https://www.swimming.org.au/