He continues to swim and run
regularly. With his younger brother Edward he completed a Marathon in Sydney in November 2002 and competed in the Engadine Ski Marathon in 2002, 2003 and 2004. He married Vickie (Victoria Freeman) on August 27th 2005 in Harvington, Worcs. Vickie is an International Triathlete who has competed for Great Britain and
won her age group in the World Long Course Triathlon Championships in Canberra in November 2006. Email address
He ran the London Marathon in 2004, with his twin brother, Matthew.He
competes regularly in Masters swimming events, duathlon and occasional triathlons.
Oliver Wilkinson (Oliver Richard Charles)
The younger twin, by fifteen minutes, Oliver was a student at
Liverpool Blue Coat School, St Kevin's College, Toorak and Melbourne High School. He excelled in the swimming pool, where he competed at city and county level in England and at State
level in Australia. He specialised particularly in butterfly and he and his twin brother, Matthew, were both rated in "the top ten in Australia", as 12 year olds, in 400 metres individual
medley. Outside sport Oliver developed a major interest in theatre and was heavily involved in numerous productions at school – mainly as a member of the infamous 'stage crew'. He was awarded colours for swimming and for stage crew.
Vickie, winning her age group in the
World Long Course Triathlon.
November 2006
He planned to train as a Veterinary Surgeon and, with this in mind, entered Melbourne University studying first year Science in 1993 and transferred into Veterinary Science the
following year, qualifying in 1997. He worked in a small animal practice in Adelaide for two years and was then in England for several years, where he worked as a locum in Liverpool, Yorkshire, Cheltenham and elsewhere.
Oliver and Vickie lived in Cheltenham
for most of 2008 and 2009, where Vickie continued to train vigorously and compete regularly. Oliver worked, much of the time, for the Dragon Veterinary Centre in Cheltenham but also has a share in a Veterinary practice in Albert Park,
Melbourne, where he has worked for two months each year -
He won the 2 way Windermere (21 mile) swim in August 2009 in a near record time and swam across the English Channel on September 8th 2009 in a respectable time (11 hours and 6 mins).
Swimming the English Channel
After the swim -
with Alison Streeter
("Queen of the Channel")
In early 2010 he and Vickie, with their Hungarian Viszla "Tassie", returned to Melbourne for
eighteen months. He competed in the Rottnest chanel swin (20 Kms) and the Maui (Hawaii) chanel swim (16 kms) in 2010 Vickie competed in the Australian Ironman in March 2010, winning her age group. She qualified for the Hawaiian
Ironman, which she completed successfully in October 2010! In January 2011 Ollie won the "Bloody Big Swim" (11.2 kms) in Port Phillip Bay. In June Ollie competed in the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim (MIMS), 46 km. He finished 4th and was
invited to compete for the World Record.As part of his training for the record attempt he did the Windermere (single length = 10.5 mile) swim in early September, which he won by more than ten minutes. Two weeks later, also in September,
Vickie came 4th in the Welsh Ironman in Tenby, winning her age group, and qualifying for the 2012 Hawaii Ironman
On Sep 28th Ollie took the World Record for MIMS, a fantastic effort!
Australian Ironman March 2010
in "togs" 2010
Hawaii swim Oct 2010
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