Kristopher Gilchrist
British swimmer and Olympic athlete
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Full name | Kristopher Jon Gilchrist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Kris" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1983-12-03) 3 December 1983 (age 40) Edinburgh, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb; 12 st 8 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | City of Edinburgh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kristopher Jon Gilchrist (born 3 December 1983) is a Scottish competitive swimmer and breaststroker who has represented Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA world championships and European championships, and Scotland in the Commonwealth Games. He is a past world champion in the 200-metre breaststroke.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he competed in the 100- and 200-metre breaststroke events. At the 2008 FINA short-course world championship, he won a gold medal in the men's 200-metre breaststroke.
Personal bests and records held
Event | Long course | Short course |
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100 m breaststroke | 1:00.57 | 58.89 |
200 m breaststroke | 2:10.27NR | 2:05.84 |
Key NR:British |
External links
- British Olympic Association athlete profile
- British Swimming athlete profile
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World short-course champions in men's 200 m breaststroke
- 1993:
Nick Gillingham (GBR)
- 1995:
Wang Yiwu (CHN)
- 1997:
Aleksandr Gukov (BLR)
- 1999:
Phil Rogers (AUS)
- 2000:
Roman Sloudnov (RUS)
- 2002:
Jim Piper (AUS)
- 2004:
Brendan Hansen (USA)
- 2006:
Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ)
- 2008:
Kristopher Gilchrist (GBR)
- 2010:
Naoya Tomita (JPN)
- 2012:
Dániel Gyurta (HUN)
- 2014:
Dániel Gyurta (HUN)
- 2016:
Marco Koch (GER)
- 2018:
Kirill Prigoda (RUS)
- 2021:
Nic Fink (USA)
- 2022:
Daiya Seto (JPN)
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