SYDNEY, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Former Australian Olympic swimmer Scott Miller has been given a one-year suspended jail sentence for drug possession charges, local media reported on Wednesday.

Miller, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of drug possession over separate incidents in 2013.

The 1996 silver and bronze Olympic medalist was arrested in June 2013 after police found three bags of ice and thousands of dollars in cash.

A month later, he was found with 7.75 grams of drug ice at Sydney's Potts Point.

In sentencing Miller, magistrate Jan Stevenson took into account Miller's two-year-old son and the fact that he just finished five months of rehabilitation, local media reports said.

The magistrate told Miller that police would be watching him like a hawk as she handed down the sentence to him at the Downing Center Local Court on Wednesday.

Outside the court, Miller's lawyer Greg Goold told reporters that his client had been working hard to overcome his drug addictions.

Goold said the Olympian was very luck to avoid jail and would continue with his rehabilitation.

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