Bill Kirby
William ("Bill") Ashley Kirby (born 12 September 1975 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian swimmer who was competitive on an international level in the nineties and early 2000s. He specialized in freestyle and butterfly and won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as part of the 4×200m freestyle relay team. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
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