Liverpool's Michael Wenden is our lone medal-winning Olympian.

The champion swimmer won two gold medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres freestyle events at the 1968 Mexico Games. They were world record feats at the time.

Wenden also won silver and bronze medals in relay events at Mexico and represented Australia at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

The other link for Liverpool is outside of the pool.

Chipping Norton's Alan Thompson was the national team coach from January, 2005 until January, 2010.

He took the Australian swim team to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

One of Thompson's former swim proteges, Ben Tuxford, has been head coach of Liverpool Swim Club at the Whitlam Leisure Centre for three years.

Tuxford, 31, said he has an ambition to help get Liverpool a "third Olympics swim representative".

"I have a dream, and that is to help prepare a Liverpool swimmer for an Olympics," Tuxford said.

"It's time to see if the batch of talented kids here now, or in the future are good enough to make it to an Olympics and a Commonwealth Games."

Tuxford took over from his longtime friend Justin Rothwell, who has links to Alan Thompson.

"Thommo [Alan] coached myself and Justin at Campbelltown for many years," Tuxford said.

"We're all good friends. It's funny how it has worked out that Justin and I also became swim coaches, like Thommo."

Tuxford said he regularly chats with Thompson and Rothwell about coaching and training ideas.

More immediate goals for Tuxford are to have his 13 swimmers primed at the NSW State Open Championships this weekend at Sydney Olympic Park.

Following this are the national titles, which double as the 2012 London Olympic trials, in Adelaide on March 15 to 22.

"I expect to have eight swimmers at the Olympic trials," Tuxford said.

He said the council and Belgravia Leisure had been most supportive of his swim programs.