David Dunford
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| Full name | David Harvey Dunford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Kenya
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| Born |
September 29, 1988 Nairobi, Kenya |
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| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, Backstroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Stanford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Harvey Dunford (born September 29, 1988 in Nairobi) is a swimmer from Kenya who specializes in sprint freestyle. He is an African champion, Commonwealth Games finalist and the second Kenyan swimmer in history to qualify for the Olympic Games (the first was his older brother Jason Dunford).
His first major senior competition was the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, but the young swimmer failed to advance heats.
At the 2006 Short Course World Championships in Shanghai he reached the 200 metres backstroke final, finishing 8th. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, he participated in several races, his best result being reaching a final and finishing 7th at 50 metre freestyle. Later that year, at the 2006 African Swimming Championships he won the 100 metres and 200 metres backstroke, becoming the first Kenyan African Champion alongside his brother Jason. David Dunford was selected as the Most Promising Sportsman in Kenya in 2006.
In 2007 he participated in the World Championships and All-Africa Games.
He competed in the 2008 FINA Short Course World Championships in Manchester in April 2008 and reached the 50m and 100m freestyle semifinals, finishing 12th in both races.
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