(Proud parents) Geoff Huegill and Sara Hills dive into Darlinghurst terrace abode with help from his in-laws: Title Tattle

Champion swimmer Geoff Huegill, and his wife Sara, who have named their three-week-old daughter Mila, have only just moved into their new Sydney abode.

It’s a three-level, four-bedroom  Darlinghurst terrace on 133 square metres that cost $1.97 million. They own 60% percent of the terrace, which was bought in partnership with Geoff Huegill’s in-laws.

Winning bronze and silver at the 2000 Olympics, Huegill established himself as one of the world’s best butterfly swimmers. All up he has won 28 international medals and set eight world records.

In 2005 he announced his retirement as he was battling with his weight and failed to qualify for the Australian team. The retirement sent him into depression, but in 2008 he announced his inspirational comeback and having shed 40 kilograms was back in the medals by 2010. He plans to compete at the London Olympics this year.

Sara Huegill, nee Hills, was in the Sweaty Betty PR fashion firm prior to her 2011 marriage, and has her own fashion blog. Title Tattle seems to recall the couple were previously based in a teeny one-bedder, with harbour views, but filled with her her fashion books, when they appeared last February on the Channel 7 show, Better Home and Gardens. 

Mila has Slavic origins meaning “gracious, dear”.

The terrace sold late last year at an undisclosed price through McGrath agent Chris Chung after failing to sell at its May auction, when $2.05 million was being sought. 

It was sold by Sophia Massey-Green and James Hutton who’d paid $930,000 pre-renovation in early 2009.

In neighbouring Surry Hills another world record holder, Eamon Sullivan, spent $1,265,000 in 2009 for his renovated four-bedroom terrace.