Graham Thorpe Brother Ian Thorpe Wiki, Career, Wife, Children, Net Worth
Ian Thorpe is an Australian retired swimmer who specialised in freestyle but competed in backstroke and the individual medley too. He is the youngest Australian male(14years old) at the 1998 Perth World Championships in the 400metre freestyle.
He won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian along with fellow swimmer Emma McKeon.Thorpe was the most successful athlete at the 2000 Summer Olympics, held in his hometown of Sydney with three gold and two silver medals.
Ian Thorpe was born in a suburb in Sidney on the 13th of October, 1982. He is the younger brother to Graham and Alan Thorpe all of whom are sportsmen too. Ian came from a sporting family. During his very early years, Ian suffered an allergy to chlorine and won’t attempt swimming until a school carnival.
However, once he made love to the pool, Ian would go ahead to win both junior and senior swimming championship completions and eventually represent his motherland. He grew out of his chlorine allergy.
Thorpe dominated the 400m freestyle, winning the event at every Olympic, World, Commonwealth, and Pan Pacific Swimming Championships until his break after the 2004 Olympics in Athens. He is nicknamed “Thorpedo”.
Ian Thorpe’s career
Ian is a retired international swimmer. He swam for the Australian national team. He began swimming at age 7 and was outdoors at 14years as the youngest male Australian swimmer to win a championship medal in 1997.
From the Pan Pacific championship where he wins a silver medal despite having undergone an appendix operation, to the World Aquatics Championship. He decorated his efforts with medals from all these contests. He led Australia to win its first swimming event on a global stage since its last win in 1956.
Ian Thorpe combined with Klim, Kowalski, and Matt Dunn in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay to break the world record of the Unified Team set in 1992 by 0.09s at the Commonwealth Games that were believed in Kuala Lumpur. He is specialized in the 400m, 400 ×100m, and 40×200m freestyle.
Thorpe left school to concentrate on swimming desire discouragement from loved ones and went ahead to earn the title of Swimming World Swimmer of the year after his immense impact on the swimming community.
Thorpe has had up and down moments including overbalancing at completion that led to his disqualifications. He then raced in the 200 m and stated his intention to retire after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
He made a few come back from 2011 to 2012 but his blissful fairy tale would become a nightmare forcing him to an abrupt stop.
Does Ian Thorpe have a wife and children?
Ian is gay. He came out fully in July 2014 following several years of Denial. After coming out boldly about his sexual orientation Ian dated model Ryan Channing in 2017 but the couple split up in 2019 with Ian saying he had no plans of marrying his boyfriend anytime soon and would love to be a father. However due to strict rules in Australia when it comes to surrogacy this love to be a father hadn’t yet materialized but Ian is still hopeful. He currently has no kids of his own but is happy with his uncle’s roles.
Ian is also rumoured to be in a romance with Nick Hudson, an associate director for a large accounting firm.
What is Ian Thorpe’s Networth?
Ian has been an undoubtedly successful athlete. He is estimated to have earned around $135,000 Australian dollars for all 9 of his Olympic medals, plus extra prize money from international competitions
After the 2000 Olympics, he launched a line of luxury jewelry and underwear thus capitalising on the fame he earned spring the Olympics. He was sponsored by Adidas, as well as Australian powerhouse companies Qantas, Telstra, and Seven Network. He tried television, hosting a few reality shows and even appearing as an extra activity on the popular show Friends.
In the early 2000s, Ian signed an equity deal with So Natural Foods for an estimated $1.1 million Australian dollars. The deal included the Thorpedo energy drink, which featured Ian’s face on the bottle. He recently worked as an ambassador for the Armani brand
With some hitches here and there including having had to fight depression by going into rehabilitation, Ian Networth is somewhere over $2million.
