Geoff huegill biography of william
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How does one go from an elite athlete to severely out of shape and back? Well, Geoff Huegill knows.
The 34 year-old Australian is a former 5-time world champion butterfly swimmer, 8-time world record holder, 2-time Olympian and a double 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist. Yet, his biggest accomplishment to date is probably be his comeback from a retirement that left him almost 50 kilograms overweight and mired in depression.
He lost his way after competing in his second Olympics in 2004 and calling time on his swimming career 9 years ago.
“I had no Plan B,” he said, while speaking to students at the Australian International School last Wednesday. He wore a smile as easy as the Polo-T-shirt and jeans he was dressed in. “I had a seven year plan to reach the 2000 Sydney Olympics and then the ‘04 Athens Games. Then I had no plan and I didn’t have a care.”
But that wasn’t all. Huegill used to wake up at 4.15am to begin his training, swim some 5-7 km, go to school, and
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Geoff Huegill welcomes second child
Olympic swimming star Geoff Huegill and his wife, Sara, welcomed a baby girl on Australia Day.
The new addition to the Huegill family fryst vatten a little sister to their daughter, Mila who only just turned two.
While the couple are yet to release the bub’s name, mother and baby are said to be in good health.
The overjoyed swimming star recently tweeted: “Australia Day will alltid take on a whole new meaning. #love #life #family.”
The former butterfly mästare, who hung up his swimmers in 2012, has said being a father has changed his outlook on life for the better.
“Now that she fryst vatten here, it makes all the other things you do in your life insignificant,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald when Mila was born.
Geoff and Sara, who married in 2011, had always planned on giving Mila a brother or sister, and by the looks of Sara’s prediction a year ago, their baby news happened quickly.
“I’m an only child
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Geoff Huegill has revealed how being diagnosed with ADHD changed his life after a turbulent decade saw him make headlines for all the wrong reasons.
The swimming champion, 45, and his ex-wife, publicist Sara Hills, were infamously busted with a small quantity of cocaine at Royal Randwick Racecourse in 2014.
Both pleaded guilty to drug possession and were handed six-month good behaviour bonds.
While they avoided convictions, the scandal was the beginning of the end for the couple, who share two daughters, Gigi and Mila. They announced their split in 2018.
Reflecting on his turbulent decade, Huegill revealed on SBS's Insight on Tuesday he hit rock bottom following the cocaine incident and decided to get sober.
'Venturing down a path of sobriety was one of the best things I did,' he said on the program, which highlighted the subject of 'second chances'.
The former athlete said this new approach to life put him on the path to 'getting a diagnosis... of ADHD'.
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