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Full name | David Robert Carry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Aberdeen, Scotland |
8 October 1981 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, medley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Aberdeen Dolphins City of Aberdeen |
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College team | Loughborough University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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David Robert Carry (born 8 October 1981) is a Scottish former competition swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA world championships and the European championships, and Scotland in the Commonwealth Games. He competed internationally in freestyle and medley swimming events. He is the winner of seven medals in major international championships. He is of Scottish-Faroese ancestry.
He represented Scotland at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games. In 2006 he won two golds in the 400-metre freestyle and 400-metre individual medley.
He attended Robert Gordon's College during his school years. He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, competing the 400-metre freestyle and 4×200-metre freestyle relay swimming events. Four years later at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he swam in the 400-metre freestyle, and qualified for the finals with the time 3:47.25. His final result was seventh, with the time 3:48.62. He was also a member of the British men's team in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay.
Carry retired from competitive swimming in October 2012. Following his retirement from swimming, he was performance director for his former sports management company, Red Sky Management, based in Edinburgh, as a business coach. David and his wife, Keri-Anne Payne, are founders of Triscape, to share their knowledge, experiences and passion for inspiring and enabling Healthy and Active Lifestyles in World Class Environments.