Travis Nederpelt
Travis Nederpelt is an Australian former competition swimmer from Western Australia and butterfly specialist who represented his country at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens and in 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. His best Olympic performance was 8th in the final of the men's 400-metre individual medley at Athens.
Nederpelt is a record eight-time winner of the popular Swim Thru Rottnest event.
His brother Jarrad Nederpelt is also a competitive club swimmer with whom he holds the current duo record for the Rottnest Channel Swim event, set in 2001.
In May 2012 at the age of 26, Nederpelt retired from competitive swimming, but continued to serve the sport as a coach.
He became a member of the Swimming WA Board in 2016, and in 2018 was inducted into the WA Swimming Hall of Fame.
