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Australian swimming coach (born 1943)
Doug Frost
(born 11 November 1943 in
Orange, New South Wales
) is an Australian swimming coach, best known as the coach of
Ian Thorpe
. He has been made an "Honor of Life Member" of the
Australian Swim Coaches Association
and of the
Padstow Swim Club
,
New South Wales
.
Frost was a coach on the Australian national teams for the
1995
,
1997
and
1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
; the
1998 World Aquatics Championships
and the
1998 Commonwealth Games
teams and the
2000 Sydney Olympic Games
team. He has been a director at the
Australian Swim Coaches Association
since 1989 and at the
Doug Frost Swim School
since 1978. After Thorpe changed coaches, Frost left the Padstow club to start afresh in Southport, Queensland. In May 2005, he was appointed the head coach of the swimming program at the
Australian Institute of Sport
.
In 2009 Frost was appointed head of the British Swimming ITC in Stirling, Scotland. In early 2011 he was released from the role due to continued difficult relations with several of his swimmers.
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