Nicholas Sloman

{{Short description|Australian swimmer (born 1997)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Nicholas Sloman | image = | nationality = Australian | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1997|10|30|df=y}}<ref name="FINAprofile">[https://www.fina.org/athletes/1081378/nicholas-sloman "Nicholas Sloman"]. FINA. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref> | birth_place = Queensland, Australia | height = | weight = | country = Australia | sport = Open water swimming | event = 5 km, 10 km, open water team relay | club = Noosa | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's open water swimming}} {{MedalCountry|{{AUS}}}} {{MedalCount |total=yes |World Championships|1|0|1 |Pan Pacific Championships|0|0|1 }} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalGold|2024 Doha|Team open water}} {{MedalBronze|2023 Fukuoka|Team open water}} {{MedalCompetition|Pan Pacific Championships}} {{MedalBronze|2018 Tokyo|10 km open water}} }} '''Nicholas Sloman''' (born 30 October 1997) is an Australian open water swimmer. He is a six-time medalist at FINA Marathon Swim World Series, winning a gold medal and a silver medal at the 2019 edition and three silver medals and one bronze medal at the 2022 edition. At the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships, he won the bronze medal in the 10 kilometre open water swim.

==Career== ===2018–2019=== For the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, held in August in Tokyo, Japan, Sloman was named to the Swimming Australia roster.<ref name="Brien4Jul2018">Brien, Taylor (4 July 2018). [https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/australia-announces-33-swimmer-roster-for-2018-pan-pacific-championships/ "Australia Announces 33 Swimmer Roster for 2018 Pan Pacific Championships"]. ''Swimming World''. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref> He competed in the 10 kilometre open water swim on 14 August, where he won the bronze medal with a time of 1:59:20.8, which was 30.3 seconds behind gold medalist Jordan Wilimovsky of the United States and 24.1 seconds behind silver medalist Eric Hedlin of Canada.<ref name="Seiko14Aug2018">[http://swim.seiko.co.jp/en/2018/ows/Ranking/R01.pdf "Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 2018: Results Men 10 km"]. ''Seiko''. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref><ref name="Dheensaw13Aug2018">Dheensaw, Cleve (13 August 2018). [https://www.timescolonist.com/sports/victorias-eric-hedlin-surfaces-with-pan-pacific-10k-silver-4664928 "Victoria's Eric Hedlin surfaces with Pan Pacific 10K silver"]. ''Times Colonist''. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref>

At the 2019 Surf Life Saving Australia Championships in March in Burleigh Heads, Sloman won the national title in the 2 kilometre ocean swim along with Lani Pallister, who won the women's title, marking his third-consecutive title in the event.<ref name="SLSA31Mar2019">[https://sls.com.au/pallister-and-sloman-win-ocean-swim-titles-with-fast-legs/ "Pallister and Sloman win ocean swim titles with fast legs"]. ''Surf Life Saving Australia''. 31 March 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2022.</ref> He followed up with a silver medal in the 10 kilometre open water swim at the leg of the 2019 FINA Marathon Swim World Series held in May in Seychelles with a time of 1:56:04.10.<ref name="FINA2019mag">FINA (2019). [https://russwimming.ru/sites/default/files/newspaper%20%26%20journal/FINA_Aquatics_World_Magazine_2019-3.pdf "Aquatics World Magazine: Wings Over The Water Gwangju 2019"]. ''Russian Swimming Federation''. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref> Two months later, at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in July in Gwangju, South Korea, he placed twenty-first in the 10 kilometre open water swim on 16 July, finishing in a time of 1:49:22.7.<ref name="FINA16Jul2019">FINA (16 July 2019). [https://www.omegatiming.com/File/000113040001DA04FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02.pdf "18th FINA World Championships Gwangju (KOR): Men's 10km Results"]. ''Omega Timing''. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref> Two days later, he placed fifth in the 5 kilometre (4×1250 metre) open water team relay with a final relay time of 54:36.8.<ref name="FINA16Jul2019"/> In September, at the leg of the Marathon Swim World Series Nantou, Taiwan, he won the gold medal in the 10 kilometre open water swim with a time of 1:56:31.20.<ref name="FINA6Sep2019">[https://www.fina.org/competitions/82/fina-cnsg-marathon-swim-world-series-2019/results?event=218e4d9c-3a71-4af2-bebb-d78fe9a653be "FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series 2019 – Leg 8: Results Men 10km"]. FINA. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref>

===2022=== ====2022 World Aquatics Championships==== In March, Sloman was one of six swimmers named to Team Australia in open water swimming for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.<ref name="SA8Mar2022">[https://www.swimming.org.au/articles/australian-dolphins-named-world-championships-and-commonwealth-games "Dolphins Open Water team named for World Championships"]. ''Swimming Australia''. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref> On 26 June, he helped achieve a sixth-place finish in the mixed gender 4×1500 metre open water relay with a time of 1:05:30.8.<ref name="FINA26Jun2022">FINA (26 June 2022). [https://www.omegatiming.com/File/0001170300036604FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02.pdf "19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Mixed 6km Relay Results"]. ''Omega Timing''. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref> In his second event, the 5 kilometre open water swim the next day, he tied Brennan Gravley of the United States for tenth-place with a time of 54:28.4.<ref name="FINA27Jun2022">FINA (27 June 2022). [https://www.omegatiming.com/File/000117030001D504FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02.pdf "19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Men's 5km Results"]. ''Omega Timing''. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref><ref name="Moore27Jun2022">Moore, Glenn (27 June 2022). [https://7news.com.au/sport/swimming/places-of-eight-for-aussies-in-water-c-7321696 "Places of eight for Aussies in water"]. ''Seven News''. Retrieved 13 January 2023.</ref> For his third and final event, the 10 kilometre open water swim held on 29 June, he finished in a time of 1:51:58.1 and placed eighth, which was 1 minute and 1.3 seconds behind gold medalist Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy.<ref name="FINA29Jun2022">FINA (29 June 2022). [https://www.omegatiming.com/File/000117030001DA04FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02.pdf "19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Men's 10km Results"]. ''Omega Timing''. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref>

====2022 Marathon Swim World Series==== At the second leg of the 2022 FINA Marathon Swim World Series, held in July at Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, Sloman won a silver medal in the 4×1500 metre open water relay in a time of 1:08:03.75.<ref name="Arcobelli10Jul2022">Arcobelli, Stefano (10 July 2022). [https://www.gazzetta.it/Nuoto/10-07-2022/nuoto-paltrinieri-fa-vincere-staffetta-galossi-piccola-italia-d-oro-4401363178380.shtml "Paltrinieri fa vincere la staffetta. Galossi e la piccola Italia d'oro"] (in Italian). ''La Gazzetta dello Sport''. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref> He also finished in a time of 1:51:41.95 in the 10 kilometre swim and won the bronze medal.<ref name="FINA8Jul2022">[https://www.fina.org/competitions/2917/fina-marathon-swim-world-series-2022/results?event=5635fa99-67e6-429e-aa6f-02c72206c8e0 "FINA Marathon Swim World Series 2022 – Leg 2: Results Men 10km"]. FINA. 8 July 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref> The following leg, conducted in August at Lake Mégantic in Canada, he won the silver medal in the 10 kilometre open water swim with a time of 1:50:51.68, sharing the podium with gold medalist Domenico Acerenza of Italy and bronze medalist Dávid Betlehem of Hungary.<ref name="FINA27Aug2022">[https://www.fina.org/competitions/2918/fina-marathon-swim-world-series-2022/results?event=3beccc14-f4a3-45e8-a4d9-d9720cf17eed "FINA Marathon Swim World Series 2022 – Leg 3: Results Men 10km"]. FINA. 27 August 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref><ref name="Csurka28Aug2022">Csurka, Gergely (28 August 2022). [https://www.nemzetisport.hu/uszas/nyilt-vizi-uszas-betlehem-david-elso-egyeni-vk-dobogoja-2910523 "Nyílt vízi úszás: Betlehem Dávid első egyéni vk-dobogója"] (in Hungarian). ''Nemzeti Sport''. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref> He won a second silver medal in the 4×1500 metre open water relay at the final leg, with competition held in November in Eilat, Israel, helping achieve a final time of 1:06:36.60.<ref name="Pérez11Nov2022">Pérez, Marta (11 November 2022). [https://www.mundodeportivo.com/natacion/20221111/1001893761/relevo-espanol-quinto-series-mundiales-eilat.html "El relevo español, quinto en las Series Mundiales de Eilat"] (in Spanish). ''Mundo Deportivo''. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref> For the 10 kilometre swim he placed eleventh with a time of 1:46:56.60.<ref name="FINA11Nov2022">[https://www.fina.org/competitions/2919/fina-marathon-swim-world-series-2022/results?event=dc61beeb-f4f6-46a9-bbdd-463259c59161 "FINA Marathon Swim World Series 2022 – Leg 5: Results Men 10km"]. FINA. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref> Across all of the legs of the World Circuit for the year, he earned 1600 points, tying for rank of sixth overall with Dario Verani of Italy amongst all male competitors.<ref name="FINA12Nov2022">[https://www.fina.org/competitions/2916/fina-marathon-swim-world-series-2022/rankings?scoringId=86d140fb-7a35-43b0-b7e2-996a3e5e219f "FINA Marathon Swim World Series 2022: Men Ranking 2022"]. FINA. 12 November 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref>

===2023=== In January 2023, at the year's Australian Open Water Championships, Sloman finished in a time of 55:20.96 in the 5 kilometre open water swim to place second less than one-tenth of a second behind Kyle Lee.<ref name="Hanson28Jan2023">Hanson, Ian (28 January 2023). [https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/local-wa-hero-kyle-lee-wins-a-5km-thriller-with-nick-sloman-in-a-fitting-finale-to-australian-open-water-championships/ "Local WA Hero Kyle Lee Wins A 5Km Thriller With Nic Sloman In A Fitting Finale To Australian Open Water Championships"]. ''Swimming World''. Retrieved 16 February 2023.</ref> Two months later, he was named to the 2023 World Aquatics Championships roster for Swimming Australia in the 10 kilometre open water swim.<ref name="SA24Mar2023">[https://www.swimming.org.au/articles/dolphins-named-for-open-water-world-championships "Dolphins named for Open Water World Championships"]. ''Swimming Australia''. 24 March 2023. Retrieved 29 March 2023.</ref> In April, at the 2023 Australian Swimming Championships in Gold Coast, Queensland, he won the bronze medal in the 1500 metre freestyle with a 15:18.20 and placed ninth in the 400 metre freestyle with a 3:55.98.<ref name="SA17Apr2023">[https://liveresults.swimming.org.au/sal/2023Opens/ "Meet Results: 2023 Australian Swimming Championships"]. ''Swimming Australia''. 17 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2023.</ref>

==International championships== {| class="sortable wikitable" ! Meet ! class="unsortable"|5 kilometre ! class="unsortable"|10 kilometre ! class="unsortable"|open water team relay |- | style="background:#ccccff"| PAC 2018 (age: 20) || {{n/a}} || align="center"|{{Bronze3}} (1:59:20.8) || {{n/a}} |- | WC 2019 (age: 21) || style="background:#fdffe7"| || align="center"|21st (1:49:22.7) || align="center"|5th (4×1250 m – 54:36.8) |- | WC 2022 (age: 24) || align="center"|10th (54:28.4) || align="center"|8th (1:51:58.1) || align="center"|6th ({{nowrap|4 × 1500 m}} – 1:05:30.8) |}

==Marathon Swim World Series circuits== The following medals Sloman has won at Marathon Swim World Series circuits.<ref name="FINAmedals">[https://www.fina.org/athletes/1081378/nicholas-sloman/medals "Nicholas Sloman: Medals"]. FINA. Retrieved 8 December 2022.</ref>

{| class="wikitable" |- ! rowspan=2|Edition !! colspan=3|Individual !! colspan=3|Relay !! rowspan=2|Total |- ! Gold !! Silver !! Bronze !! Gold !! Silver !! Bronze |- | 2019 || style="text-align:center;" | 1 || style="text-align:center;" | 1 || style="text-align:center;" | 0 || style="text-align:center;" | – || style="text-align:center;" | – || style="text-align:center;" | – || style="text-align:center;" | 2 |- | 2022 || style="text-align:center;" | 0 || style="text-align:center;" | 1 || style="text-align:center;" | 1 || style="text-align:center;" | 0 || style="text-align:center;" | 2 || style="text-align:center;" | 0 || style="text-align:center;" | 4 |- ! Total !! style="text-align:center;" | 1 !! style="text-align:center;" | 2 !! style="text-align:center;" | 1 !! style="text-align:center;" | 0 !! style="text-align:center;" | 2 !! style="text-align:center;" | 0 !! style="text-align:center;" | 6 |}

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==External links== * {{World Aquatics|name=Nicholas Sloman}} * {{Swimrankings|name=Nick Sloman}} * {{Swimming Australia|nick-sloman|Nick Sloman}} * {{AOC profile|nicholas-sloman|Nicholas Sloman}} * {{Olympics.com|nick-sloman|Nick Sloman}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sloman, Nicholas}} Category:1997 births Category:Living people Category:Australian male freestyle swimmers Category:Australian long-distance swimmers Category:Sportsmen from Queensland Category:World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming Category:Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic swimmers for Australia Category:21st-century Australian sportsmen