Giaan Rooney

Quick Facts

Full Name	Giaan Rooney
Occupation	Swimmer
Date Of Birth	Nov 15, 1982(1982-11-15)
Age	42
Birthplace	Brisbane
Country	Australia
Birth City	Queensland
Horoscope	Scorpio

Giaan Rooney Biography

Giaan Rooney is one of the most popular and richest Swimmer who was born on November 15, 1982 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Giaan Leigh Rooney OAM (born on 15th November, 1982) is an Australian former competitive swimmer, as well as a TV personality. As an athlete on the Australian team in the women’s 4×100 meter relay, she earned the Olympic silver medal, and set a record in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Rooney has been a presenter on Australian television host.

Rooney participated at his participation at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England, winning silver in the freestyle relay of 4×200 metres (with Elka Graham, Rebecca Creedy and Petria Thomas) and bronze in the 100-meter backstroke.

In 2004 Rooney won a gold medal in world record time at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the women’s 4×100-metre Medley Relay. Rooney swam a personal best and new Australian record time of 1:01.18 to help Australia to the gold – the maiden victory by Australia in this event in Olympic history.

After the withdrawal of Grant Hackett from the 2006 Commonwealth Games due to injury, Rooney was appointed as the captain of the national swimming team. She won a silver medal behind teammate Sophie Edington in the 100-metre backstroke, and qualified fastest for the 50-metre backstroke. However, she was upset by Edington by 0.01 of a second, again winning a silver medal. There is, however, conjecture about that official result with video suggesting Rooney touched first but did not activate the timing pad immediately. Rooney retired from competitive swimming after this meet.

In 2001, Rooney was crowned the title of world champion in the 200m freestyle. She won it during the Fukuoka World Swimming championships, held in Japan. The event was also noted for the disqualifications from those on the Australian women’s team when they took a plunge into the sea to celebrate their apparent victory in the freestyle relay 4×200 meters The team comprised of Elka Graham Petria Thomas, and Linda Mackenzie joined anchor swimmer Rooney in the pool to celebrate their victory however, since the event was over before other competitors had finished their race the team was disqualified. In addition, the team was able to find that they were disqualified while they were doing an interview after the race for the television.

Giaan Rooney Net Worth

Giaan Rooney is one of the richest Swimmer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Giaan Rooney 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rooney was a swimmer who made her international debut for Australia during the 1998 Commonwealth Games, where she was awarded a gold medal for the 100m backstroke when she was at the age of 15. Rooney participated in the gold- medal winning 4×100-meter medley relay team in 1998 Games.

In the 2000 Olympics during the Olympics of 2000 in Sydney Rooney took home two silver medals in Sydney as part of the freestyle relay 4×200 metres (with Kirsten Thomson, Susie O’Neill and Petria Thomas) and the 4×100-metre Medley relay (swam in the morning’s preliminaries session).

Rooney’s career began at age 11 at the Miami club in Queensland, where she was coached by Denis Cotterell. Training partners there included Grant Hackett and Daniel Kowalski. In 2002 Rooney moved to Melbourne, coached by Ian Pope at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. Training partners included Matt Welsh, Michael Klim (who was also her boyfriend for two years) and Brett Hawke.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Giaan Rooney height 5 ft 9 in Giaan weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Giaan Rooney Dating?

According to our records, Giaan Rooney married to Sam Levett. As of December 1, 2023, Giaan Rooney’s is not dating anyone.

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In February 2015, Rooney resigned as weekend weather presenter on Seven News Melbourne, and in October 2015 she became sports anchor for Seven News Brisbane. No longer in this role, she remains part of the Seven Network’s news and sport division.

Facts & Trivia

Giaan Ranked on the list of most popular Swimmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Giaan Rooney celebrates birthday on November 15 of every year.

As the Seven Network in late 2019, she replaced Sonia Kruger, Steven Jacobs, Lauren Phillips and Denis Walter to currently present the show Helloworld with returning 5 hosts Bec Hewitt, Vince Sorrenti, Ray Martin, Matt Wilson and Ashley Hart and former broadcast on the Nine Network.

What is Giaan Rooney doing now?

Rooney is currently an Australian television presenter.

How old is Giaan Rooney?

39 years (November 15, 1982)

How tall is Giaan Rooney?

5′ 9″

Who is Nicole Livingstone commentating with?

Noted sports broadcaster and journalist Matt White will serve as host across the six days of live swimming events. Joining Matt as experts will be three-time Olympian Nicole Livingstone OAM, three time Olympian and gold medallist Grant Hackett OAM, and Paralympic gold medallist, Annabelle Williams OAM.

Does Liesel Jones still swim?

Jones confirmed her retirement from swimming in November 2012.