Jack Cartwright

Jack Cartwright
Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	22 September 1998 (age 26); Auchenflower, Queensland, Australia
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	81 kg (179 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Coach	Dean Boxall
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Australia
Olympic Games
World Championships (LC)
Pan Pacific Championships
Commonwealth Games
World Junior Championships
Junior Pan Pac Championships

Jack Cartwright (born 22 September 1998) is an Australian swimmer.

He is scheduled to make his Olympics debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris on 27 July 2024.

Early life and career

Cartwright was raised in Biloela, Queensland where during his childhood he would travel to Gladstone for training, moving to the city in 2008 where he trained with the Gladstone Gladiators.^[1]^[2]

After securing a scholarship, Cartwright relocated to Brisbane in 2014 to attend private Lutheran school St Peters College.^[2]

At the 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Cartwright won gold medals in the 200 metre freestyle, 100 metre freestyle (where he set a Championships record of 48.91 seconds in the preliminaries), 50 metre freestyle, and the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, a silver medal in 4×100 metre freestyle relay, and a bronze medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay.^[3]

He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.^[4]^[5]

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Cartwright won two gold medals as part of the teams who won the 4x100m freestyle relay and the 4x100m medley relay.^[2]^[6]

Cartwright was part of the winning 4 x 100 metre relay and the 4 x 100 metre freestyle teams at the 2022 and 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest and Fukushima respectively, winning a collective total of three gold medals and one silver medal.^[7]^[8] Following this success, Cartwright won another silver medal at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha as part of the mixed 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay team.^[9]

Following the 2024 Australian Swimming Trials in Brisbane, Cartwright was named as part of the Australian swimming team to compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.^[10]

World records

Long course metres

No.	Event	Time	Meet	Location	Date	Status	Ref
1	4x100 m mixed freestyle relay^[a]	3:19.38	2022 World Aquatics Championships	Budapest, Hungary	24 June 2022	Former	^[11]
2	4x100 m mixed freestyle relay^[b]	3:18.83	2023 World Aquatics Championships	Fukuoka, Japan	29 July 2023	Current	^[12]

Legend: OC – Oceanian record; NR – Australian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

^a split 48.12 (1st leg); with Kyle Chalmers (2nd leg), Madison Wilson (3rd leg), Mollie O'Callaghan (4th leg)
^b split 48.14 (1st leg); with Kyle Chalmers (2nd leg), Shayna Jack (3rd leg), Mollie O'Callaghan (4th leg)

References

^ Kelly, Aaron (29 June 2024). "The heartfelt letter that set Jack Cartwright on the path from country kid to Paris Olympian". ABC News. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Kossatch, Nick (9 April 2018). "It's a Gladstone gold rush". The Observer. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
^ "2016 Jr Pan Pacific Swimming Championships: Results". swmeets.com. 27 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
^ "Heats results". FINA. Archived from the original on 27 July 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
^ "2017 World Aquatics Championships > Search via Athletes". Budapest 2017. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
^ Maasdorp, James; Pentony, Luke (6 April 2018). "Commonwealth Games: Chalmers doubles up on gold as McKeon leads swimming medal surge". ABC News. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
^ Otto, Tyson (25 June 2022). "'It's astonishing': Aussies break world record at swimming championships". news.com.au. Retrieved 6 July 2024. Kyle Chalmers, Jack Cartwright, Madison Wilson and Mollie O'Callaghan set the Budapest pool on fire to win the event by more than 1.3 seconds clear of Canada.
^ Larkin, Steve (24 July 2023). "Australian swimmers smash world records, win four gold medals in Japan". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 6 July 2024. Australia's men's 4x100m freestyle relayers – Jack Cartwright, Flynn Southam, Kai Taylor and Kyle Chalmers – also saluted on Sunday night in Fukuoka...
^ Australian Associated Press (18 February 2024). "Cameron McEvoy pipped to 50m freestyle gold in Doha upset as next gen of Aussie swimmers shine again". ABC News. Retrieved 6 July 2024. as they teamed up with Kai Taylor and Jack Cartwright to win silver in the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay behind the victorious Chinese.
^ Bilton, Dean (16 June 2024). "Australia's Paris Olympics swimming team has been confirmed. Is it ready to conquer the world?". ABC News. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
^ "Mixed Freestyle Relay Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 24 June 2022.
^ "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 29 July 2023.