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Further Personal Information | |
| Residence | Richmond, BC, CAN |
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| Hobbies | Playing computer games, watching ice hockey, playing the guitar and sleeping. (Athlete 26/11/01, ubyssey.bc.ca 12/02/02) |
| Injuries | Had to cut back his training schedule after the 2004 Olympic Games to allow a shoulder injury to heal. (swimming.ca 16/04/08) He has suffered from tendonitis in his right shoulder. (Athlete 30/08/99) |
| Superstitions / Rituals / Beliefs | When the whistle blows for competitors to get on the blocks, he claps six times then does four squats when he's on the blocks before the race starts. (ubyssey.bc.ca 12/02/02) |
| Memorable sporting achievement | Making the national team for the first time in 1999, winning a silver medal in the 400m individual medley at the 2002 World Short Course Championships in Moscow, Russia and setting a new world record in the short course 400m individual medley at the 2003/04 Canadian Inter-University Sports Championships in Victoria. (Athlete 30/08/99, Team Canada Media Guide 2002, swimming.ca 16/04/08) |
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| Why this sport? | He was good in the water from an early age and he was inspired about being involved in the Olympic Games after watching Canada's Mark Tewksbury win gold in the 100m backstroke at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. |
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| Ambitions | To win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, then become a teacher or a coach. (ubyssey.bc.ca 26/10/01, ubyssey.bc.ca 30/09/03) |
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| Name of coach | Tom Johnson |
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| Occupation | Student |
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| Club / Team | UBC Dolphins: Vancouver, BC, CAN |
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| Higher education | Human Movement Studies - University of British Columbia: Vancouver, BC, CAN |
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| Hero / Idol | Canada's world championship and Olympic Games medal-winning individual medley swimmer Curtis Myden. "To swim together and talk to him on the same level was amazing." (ubyssey.bc.ca 26/10/01) |
| Awards and honours | He carried the Canada flag at the Closing Ceremony of the 2007 World Student Games in Bangkok, Thailand. (swimming.ca 16/04/08) In 2002, he received the Howard Mackie Award as the top male athlete in Canadian Intervarsity Sport. (Swimming Canada 09/05/02) |
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| When and where did you begin this sport? | He started swimming at the age of six in Richmond. |
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| Languages | English |
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| Nicknames | BJ. (ubyssey.bc.ca 12/02/02) |
| Other information | STUDENT CHAMPION He won a gold medal in the 200m individual medley at the 2007 World Student Games in Bangkok, Thailand. (swimming.ca 16/04/08) EARLY DAYS He began serious training as a 12-year-old at the Richmond Rapids club under coach Craig McCord, before moving on to swim for the University of British Columbia. (ubyssey.bc.ca 26/10/01) |