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	alligatorSports.org at The Independent Florida Alligator Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is a typical scenario for UF swimmer Darian Townsend.
		Traveling under water, Townsend has gone almost unnoticed as he has become a premier athlete on UF's swim team, and that suits him just fine.
		A sophomore, Townsend was part of the South African 4x100 freestyle relay team that took gold and broke a world record at the 2004 Olympics.
	www.alligator.org /pt2/051117swim.php (443 words)

	Townsend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Townsend is the name of some places in the United States of America:
		Townsend is the name of some places in England:
		Townsend, Kingswinford is an area at the end of the village of Kingswinford in the West Midlands but previously in Staffordshire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Townsend (151 words)

	M2006 > Athletes > Display
		Darian was only a few months old when his mother Rita, a swimming teacher, began teaching him.
		His father Ted recalls that Darian could swim before he could walk.
		Excelling also out of the water, Darian was the 2002 Maritzburg College matriculant who took up watersport in high school.
	www.melbourne2006.com.au /Participants/Participants?ID=103320 (174 words)

	Cape Argus - The guys who got us gold
		After Townsend, Ryk Neethling, Roland Schoeman and Lyndon Ferns won gold and broke the world record in the the 4x100 metre swimming relay at the Olympic Games in Athens on Sunday night, Thorpe should be asking all four of the South Africans for their autographs.
		Darian Townsend attributed the gold medal and world record-breaking efforts to the relay team's fantastic spirit.
		While at school, Townsend broke eight school records, was a member of the water polo team and the captain of the swimming team in 2002.
	www.capeargus.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=345&fArticleId=2190002 (1231 words)

	Paul Shippey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The fourth member of the team, Darian Townsend is not with them this morning.
		He handed over to Darian Townsend, who although marginally slower, maintained the pace and lead over the field and then it was up to the big powerhouse – Ryk Neethling, to literally explode for the final 100m, which he swam faster than anybody else to break the world record and upset the party.
		Under US scholarship laws Darian and Lyndon may not receive any compensation for swimming, but Ryk and Roland may, as they are done with their scholarships.
	www.paulshippey.com /photojournalpage.html (1186 words)

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		This is what Darian Townsend's best friend at school told the Australian swimming superstar Ian Thorpe three years ago.
		The 19-year-old Townsend and the Australian both swam in the 4x100m relay's thrid leg when the South African team won gold against all expectations.
		When he started training Townsend as a 6-year-old, he was a small, slight little boy, said Wayne Ridden, his coach for the past 13 years.
	news24.com /News24/Olympics2004/SANews/0,,2-1652-1653_1573972,00.html (388 words)

	Cape Argus - The guys who got us gold
		As a Pietermaritzburg schoolboy, Darian Townsend predicted that one day Australian swimming legend Ian Thorpe would be asking for his autograph.
		Townsend's old school, Martizburg College, had a special assembly to celebrate the victory.
		When Townsend was part of the South African schools under-18 team on tour in Australia, Thorpe was just metres away.
	www.capeargus.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=2190002&fSectionId=345&fSetId=516 (1231 words)

	The Herald : News
		At a press conference, the triumphant 4 x 100m relay team of Ryk Neethling, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Roland Schoeman were the toast of Athens, getting a standing ovation and loud round of applause, along with the cheer “Amandla Awethu” — “Strength in the struggle, strength is ours”.
		Neethling, 26, said he would love to be based in his home country, like the last of the quartet, Darian Townsend, but politics got in the way of funding back home.
		Townsend, who turns 20 on August 28 and who matriculated at Maritzburg College in 2002, leaves on September 3 shortly after arriving home from the Olympics to a scholarship at the University of Florida.
	www.theherald.co.za /herald/2004/08/17/news/n01_17082004.htm (1169 words)

	Star: Awesome foursome make waves
		And the only South African-based member of the team, Darian Townsend, revealed that he will be heading to Florida in the US shortly.
		Townsend also said the e-mails he had received from his teammates in the US before the Games had been a great help.
		Townsend and Neethling both pulled out of the individual 200m freestyle event to concentrate on winning the relay.
	www.star.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=327&fArticleId=2189845 (1017 words)

	The Herald : Sport
		Neethling and Townsend will compete in the 200m freestyle heats about 90 minutes before the relay heats so there could be a rationale to save Neethling for the final.
		It is unlikely that they would opt to rest both Neethling and Townsend in the prelims.
		Interestingly, despite being named in the line-up, Gerhard Zandberg did not swim, but this might be one more tactic being used to run “interference” as the competing countries maintain the mystery over their selections.
	www.theherald.co.za /herald/2004/08/12/sport/sp09_12082004.htm (320 words)

	[origo] Athén 2004 - A dél-afrikai úszócsoda nyomában (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		További kuriózum, hogy úszásban vasárnapig még nem született afrikai olimpiai aranyérem a játékok 108 esztendős történetében, ami azért némi adalék ahhoz, mennyire mérföldkőnek számít a Roland Mark Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend, Ryk Neethling összetételű kvartett eredménye.
		- Ezt a darabkát úgy hívják, hogy Darian Townsend.
		Erre a helyre egyébként Darian mellett Karl Thanningnek és Eugene Botesnak is volt esélye, azaz a bőség zavarával küszködtünk, végül Darianre esett a választás.
	www.origo.hu /athen2004/20040819adelafrikai.html (747 words)

	The Swimslash Chronicles
		Darian Townsend was there as well, but did not place higher than 6th, and that was with the 200yd relay team.
		Townsend, by the way, even if he doesn't swim in the relays is pegged in some individual events.
		Townsend must either be tremendously camera-shy or photogs are going out of their way to avoid him.
	blahfrickinblah.livejournal.com (1283 words)

	Mercury - Olympic medallist returns to Durban
		Since that memorable Sunday evening in Athens, however, Townsend has grown in status, and as he heads to Durban for this weekend's Fina World Cup, it will be as one of the drawcards of the competition.
		This weekend Townsend will be competing in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle, the 200m individual medley and the 100m butterfly.
		Townsend admits that along with family and friends he missed "the small things like ProNutro and Jungle Oats" and the familiar twang of South African accents, although chatting to SA's Sydney Olympian Renata du Plessis who is also based in Gainesville, did help.
	www.themercury.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=2303738&fSectionId=297&fSetId=515 (589 words)

	Star: Our golden boys
		Last night, Ryk Neethling, Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns and Darian Townsend, the 4x100m freestyle swimming relay team, broke the world record and saw off America's golden boy to win South Africa's first Olympic gold medal in eight years.
		Just Townsend, the only one of the four who still lives in South Africa, managed to gather enough composure to sing the national anthem as it blasted through the balmy Athens night.
		Townsend kept the under-49-seconds theme going with a 48,96 and then Neethling neatly placed the cherry on the cake with a 47,91.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=128&fArticleId=2188632 (587 words)

	Sports: Gator men find swimming success (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sophomore Darian Townsend was third in the 100-meter freestyle at 49.96, earning his second third-place finish and an automatic qualifying time for the NCAA Championships.
		The 100 was won by Sun Devil Aquatics' Nick Brunelli, who upset heavily favored Dutch Olympian Pieter van den Hoogenband in a meet-record 48.98.
		Townsend, Lochte, Daniel Penniman and Brian Hartley capped the competition with a runnerup finish in the 4x100-meter relay, 14-hundredths of a second out of first.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/12/04/news_pf/Sports/Gator_men_find_swimmi.shtml (232 words)

	Gator Men's Swimming & Diving News @ Gatorzone.com
		The championship effort by the Gators in the event ends a 14-year drought as the 400-yard medley relay team of Martin Zubero, Brent Mitchell, Anthony Nesty and Bob Utley were the last Gator realy squad to stand atop the awards podium at the NCAA meet.
		In the 200-yard freestyle, Sioui raced to an eighth-place finish in the championship final in a time of 1:36.14, while Townsend notched a career-best performance of 1:34.05 to place ninth and claim the consolation final crown.
		For Townsend the time of 1:34.05 improves his time of 1:34.41 to rank third all-time in UF history.
	web.gatorzone.com /story.php?id=8385&sport=swimm&html=swimmingdiving/men/news/20050326121400.html (555 words)

	ATHENS 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1992, Crissy Ahmann-Leighton of Benson won a silver in the 100 butterfly and took gold in the 400 medley relay and the 400 freestyle relay.
		Schoeman, Ferns, Darian Townsend and Neethling shattered Australia's 400 free record of 3:13.67.
		From left to right are Darian Townsend, Lyndon Ferns, Roland Schoeman and Ryk Neethling.
	www.amandabeard.net /Articles/athens_2004.htm (916 words)

	IOL: American 'sledging' only inspired SA swimmers
		Ryk Neethling, Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns and Darian Townsend are the toast of Olympic swimming on Monday morning after breaking the world record by half a second in three minutes 13,17 seconds and leaving the Olympic dreams of American teenage sensation Michael Phelps in tatters.
		Townsend put in a solid third leg before Neethling flew in the anchor role, holding off Van den Hoogenbrand and Thorpe.
		"It was a fabulous and crazy effort by the boys." That's all Ted Townsend, the ecstatic father of Darian Townsend, could muster after the victory.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=6&click_id=4&art_id=vn20040816134443685C456501 (685 words)

	Durban World Cup
		A light shower that fell during the Opening Ceremony certainly did not dampen the spirits of the contestants as a near capacity crowd once again witnessed world-class swimming at this fine venue.
		The presence of three members of the “awesome foursome”, Ryk Neethling, Roland Schoeman and Darian Townsend was well received by the partisan crowd and they did not disappoint.
		Townsend claimed bronze in 49,30 ahead of a fast finishing Andrey Kapralov (Rus)(49,42) and Andrew Mewing (Aus) (49,79).
	www.durbanworldcup.co.za /default.asp?aid=131674 (1271 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| olympics \| news SA relay heroes make world news
		South Africa's golden boys led Olympic news in Greece and America after Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling broke the world 4x100m relay record for gold in the biggest upset of the Athens Olympics so far.
		Townsend, only 19 years old, needed to crack well under 50 seconds for his leg to keep the South Africans' hopes afloat — and he held the pressure with the strength of a young Atlas.
		Ferns was quicker than Phelps (48.74) in his leg with 48.13 seconds, and Townsend kept his momentum going with 48.96, then big Neethling opened up with a spectacular 47.91 to beat Australia's world record of 3:13.67 set at Sydney 2000.
	sport.iafrica.com /olympics/news/341477.htm (809 words)

	Daily News - Roland and Ryk show
		But quietly going about their business will be the SA pair, who enjoy being out of the spotlight and the general pre-event hype.
		It was as the dark horses that they, together with Lyndon Ferns and Darian Townsend, stunned the swimming world with one of the greatest upsets of the Games by winning the 4x100m freestyle gold.
		Also hoping to be back in the pool tomorrow night will be Darian Townsend, who needs to come up with a great performance in his 200m individual medley heat today.
	www.dailynews.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=533&fArticleId=2191485 (625 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Golden swimmers to shine in Durbs
		Ryk Neethling, Roland Schoeman and Darian Townsend, three members of the SA Olympic gold medal winning team, will be in action together for the first time in South Africa since they won the 4x100 metre freestyle relay at the Olympic Games in Athens.
		Laubscher, who flew the flag for South Africa last year in the first two legs of the World Cup in Korea and Australia won a silver and bronze in Durban and Corfe also claimed gold last year in the 200 metre backstroke.
		Men: Roland Schoeman, Ryk Neethling, Darian Townsend, Troyden Prinsloo, Stephan Ackermann, George du Rand, Eugene Hulley, Jasper Venter, Neil Versfeld.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/388360.htm (427 words)

	Coveted SA relay spot open - SouthAfrica.info
		The selection includes a place yet to be won in the men's 4x100m freestyle squad that won gold in world record time at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
		Ryk Neethling, Roland Schoeman, and Darian Townsend are in the line-up, but Lyndon Ferns is set to miss the World Championships because of his studies at Arizona University, where he is following in the footsteps of Neethling and Schoeman.
		They were involved in a swim-off for the fourth spot in the relay team in Athens, but Darian Townsend claimed that place.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/sports/swimmingwc2005.htm (700 words)

	No 'Fab Four' for World Champs - SouthAfrica.info
		For most South Africans, the enduring image of the 2004 Athens Olympics is that of Roland Schoeman, Darian Townsend, Lyndon Ferns and Ryk Neethling - the "Fab Four" - destroying the challenge of the powerhouse Dutch, American and Australian teams to win gold in world record time.
		In addition, in his most recent outing, Townsend clocked 53.19 seconds, well off the sub-51 seconds times he was turning in with consistency in 2004.
		Also considered for the team were Gerhard Zandberg and Karl Thaning, who lost out to Townsend in a swim-off for the fourth spot in the team in Athens.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/sports/wsc-montreal-2005.htm (642 words)

	Olympics Things to do in Cape Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Athens - The South African quartet of Roland Schoeman, Ryk Neethling, Darian Townsend and Lyndon Ferns won gold for the country when they captured the men's 4 x 100m freestyle relay setting a world record in the process.
		Schoeman gave the South Africans a superb start and finished his 100m more than a length clear of his opponents.
		Townsend and Ferns did their part to keep the rest at bay and Neethling, swimming the final leg, had all the experience necessary to give the South African a spectacular win.
	www.capetownattractions.com /Olympics.html (245 words)

	Welcome back, Team SA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But perhaps the loudest cheers were reserved for South Africa's swimming wonders -- Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling -- whose arrival left many woman gasping for breath.
		Neethling, who said he had received 1,500 e-mails from adoring fans, said it felt great to be back.
		Townsend, the youngest of the quartet, said for him the greatest feeling was knowing they had set the world record.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /zones/sundaytimesnew/basket4st/basket4st1093935412.aspx (513 words)

	SA swimmers stun the world - SouthAfrica.info
		Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling took the four-by-100 metres freestyle relay by storm on Sunday night, beating some of the biggest names in swimming and shattering the world record to take South Africa's first Olympic gold medal since the marathon in Atlanta eight years ago.
		It was a dominant performance by the South African quartet, and it started with Roland Schoeman, who destroyed the opposition with a devastating first leg that gave the South Africans a lead that was never closely challenged.
		Anriette Schoeman struggled with the heat and failed to challenge in the women's cycling road race, and badminton's Chris Dednam was thrashed 15-1, 15-0 in the men's singles.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/sports/athensswim-gold.htm (549 words)

	Swim Ontario
		Swimming South Africa (SSA) dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when they announced that no team would be entered for the men's four by 100 metres relay at the World Championships in Montreal later this month.
		South Africa's "fab four" - Ryk Neethling, Roland Schoeman, Darian Townsend and Lyndon Ferns - won gold for South Africa at the Olympic Games in Athens last year, and many were hoping for a repeat performance at the World Championships.
		"Lyndon was not available, and in his most recent 100m freestyle swim, Darian posted a time of 53.19 seconds, in comparison to the same time last year, when he was consistently swimming under 51 seconds.
	www.swimontario.com /news.php?id=577 (601 words)

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