Career
Faulkner specialised in long-distance freestyle events. Faulkner made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the men"s 1500 m freestyle. Swimming in heat five, he rounded out the field to last place and twenty-ninth overall on the morning prelims with a time of 15:39.86.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Faulkner swam the 400 m freestyle.
He finished first ahead of Graeme Smith from the Olympic trials, in a personal best and an A-standard entry time of 3:49.97. Faulkner challenged seven other swimmers on the fifth heat, including former finalists Grant Hackett of Australia and Dragoş Coman of Romania.
He came in only 0.24 of a second behind Coman.