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William Petric

Australian swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ128305182 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Campbell Petric (born 3 August 2004) is an Australian Olympic swimmer.

Career

In 2024, Petric qualified for the Summer Olympics in Paris after placing second in the 400 m individual medley event at the Australian Olympic trials.

In his Olympic debut, Petric finished 12th in the 400 m individual medley and 10th in the semifinal of the 200 m individual medley.

Through a scholarship offered by the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, Petric is mentored by two-time AFL Brownlow Medalist, Chris Judd.

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“William Petric” enters the record as australian swimmer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what William, Petric and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004-08-03. Its strongest next move is a source search built around William, Petric and Australian.
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“William Petric” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, William, Petric and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q128305182. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “William Petric” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.