Record-breaking Rogan to retire next year
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Austria's Olympic swimming hope Markus Rogan will retire after next year's world championships in Italy, he told national radio Oe3 on Sunday evening.
Rogan, who won gold and broke the 200-metres backstroke world record at the World Short-Course Swimming Championships in Manchester in April, is gearing up for this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing.
"I know I'm not a frontrunner but I have a chance to win gold. If I do everything 100 per cent, if I'm lucky and the others aren't, I could win a gold medal," said the 26-year-old.
Rogan won two silver medals at 2004 Athens Games, in 100m and 200m backstroke, and took home two golds and a bronze at the European championships in Eindhoven this year.
-AFP
