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champions or members of the Australian team to attend world championships.. There is currently only one ACT swimmer not supported by the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) who has equal or similar Australian rankings and she is the current member- of the Academy program.

Also with the, establishment - of Intensive Training Centres or High Performance Centres in 1990 the AIS has offered high performance swimmers, track and field athletes and gymnasts from the ACT access to facilities, coaching- and sports science services on a full or associate scholarship basis. For this reason a higher number of ACT athletes in these sports have received AIS support than in other Academy sports. This obviously has had a substantial effect on the number of athletes from these sports in the Academy program. There are currently five ACT swimmers on the team at the AIS.

(3) ACT swimmers do have equal opportunity to be supported by the Academy provided they have achieved the necessary standards. Swimming is classified by the Academy in the same way it is classified by the Australian Sports Commission. It is a Category 1 sport (i.e. the top category for support) due to its high profiler as an olympic and world championship sport.

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