James Guy (swimmer)
Guy at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
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| Full name | James Guy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Jimmy" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Great Britain
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26 November 1995 Bury, England |
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| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb; 13.1 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Jol Finck, Euan Dale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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James Guy (born 26 November 1995) is an English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain in the FINA world championships and European championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games. Guy specialises in the 200- and 400-metre freestyle. He won the 200-metre freestyle and 4×200-metre freestyle relay event at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships.
A prodigious junior, Guy was educated at Millfield School and came to senior prominence in 2014, representing England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, winning two relay medals. Thereafter, representing Great Britain, he took silver medals in the 400-metre freestyle at the FINA World Championships in both the short course (25 metre) and long course formats. On 4 August 2015, he won the 200-metre freestyle at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, the first British swimmer to win the event in its history.
He competed for England in the 4x100-metre medley relay and the 400-metre freestyle events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a gold and bronze medal respectively.
James is also European and World Junior Champion in the 4x200 and holds the Word Junior Record in those Events.
At the 200-metre freestyle event at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, Guy won the gold medal beating Olympic silver medallist Sun Yang of China by six hundredths of a second.
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