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Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
About Gary O'Toole
- Gary O'Toole, M.D., is a retired Irish Olympic swimmer.
- He represented Ireland at the Seoul, and Barcelona Games.While studying at University College Dublin, O'Toole won a 200 m breaststroke silver medal at the 1989 European Long Course Championships in Bonn .
- He also won a gold medal at the World University Championships in 1991 when representing University College Dublin and UCD.
- He helped to break 5 National relay records, including Short Course and Longcourse.As a prominent member of the Irish Amateur Swimming Association, O'Toole had been approached to make representations on behalf of the victims of the George Gibney scandal.
- Gibney, who coached O'Toole until he became aware of these allegations, criticised O'Toole publicly during the 1992 Olympics.
- His complaints were ignored, and led to a major investigation into the incidents and ultimately to the disbandment of the IASA, and the creation of Swim Ireland.Since his retirement from professional swimming, O'Toole has been a practising Orthopedic surgeon with a specialist interest in 'Cancer' and 'Sports Knee Surgery', although he does provide expert analysis for RTÉ Sport's Olympic swimming coverage.
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