Kristopher Gilchrist
Appearance
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Full name | Kristopher Jon Gilchrist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Kris" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Edinburgh, Scotland | 3 December 1983|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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
[edit]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
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Categories:
- Scottish male breaststroke swimmers
- British male breaststroke swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- 1983 births
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland
- Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers from Edinburgh
- British swimming biography stubs