Australian Olympic gold medalist Cameron McEvoy has become engaged to marry his girlfriend Madeline Bone. McEvoy, 30, and Bone announced their engagement on Instagram:
A bit of an academic super couple, Bone is a registered nurse and 2nd year PhD candidate at Griffith University where she is studying wounds and using machine learning to predict surgical wound complications. McEvoy is known as “the professor” for his academic prowess, graduating with a degree and physics and mathematics from Griffith and with a goal of becoming an astronaut after his swimming career is over.
McEvoy was one of the biggest stories of the 2024 Olympic Games. One of the best 100 freestylers in the world early in his career, tending toward the 200 as a second event, he fell out of the limelight for a few years, not making it out of the heats in the 50 or 100 free at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
But in 2023 at the World Championships, after a two year experiment that incorporated rock climbing into his training while dramatically reducing the amount of swimming he did, he re-emerged as a pure 50 sprinter. That resulted in a World Championship in the event in 2023 and an Olympic gold medal in 2024: each of which were his first career individual medals at those events.
This man is winning big time, what a year
I didn’t know Australia has a space program and astronauts?
Imagine saying you have a PHD, are an Olympic swimmer, and have been to outer space. Quite the life.
At least one Aussie has been to space. Maybe two.
Two orbital space travelers have been from Australia: Andy Thomas and Paul Desmond Scully-Power. None since 1996. That doesn’t include suborbital travelers.
I think Andy went up 4 times, including on the Russian Mir once. Last one with NASA was in 2005.
So good to read a cool article about a great athlete and his future wife. World Class Swimmers are amazing, Cameron is top tier of the best athletically and academically – Congratulations. His finance is no slacker either!
Wait McEvoy wants to be an astronaut!? It tracks, but damn dude
one couple shouldn’t be that hot/successful/well educated! like pick a struggle
She looks like Lindsay Lohan wtf
I don’t see the resemblance lol