Jason Dunford
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| Full name | Jason Edward Dunford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Kenya
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28 November 1986 Nairobi, Kenya |
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| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Stanford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jason Edward Dunford (born 28 November 1986 in Nairobi) is a retired Kenyan swimmer. He is predominantly a butterfly and freestyle sprinter. He has won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games, Universiade, All-Africa Games and African Championships, and reached finals at Olympics, World Championships and Short Course World Championships. He has also held African, Universiade and Olympic records. Many of his achievements are unprecedented in the history of Kenyan swimming.
Jason is the son of Martin and Geraldine Dunford. Martin Dunford is the Chairman of the Tamarind Group, which owns the Carnivore Restaurant. Geraldine, granddaughter to Abraham Block, the founder of Block Hotels, is the marketing executive. Martin was the vice-chairman of the Kenya Swimming Federation and the patron of the Nairobi Amateur Swimming Association (NASA).
He has two brothers, Robert and David. The elder, Robert, is a graduate of the London School of Economics where he was captain of the rugby club. The younger brother, David, is also a swimmer and represents Kenya. The family belongs to the white minority in Kenya.
On 28 June 2014, he married Lauren Finzer of Albany, California, daughter of William Finzer and Brigid McCaw.
Jason Dunford started swimming at the age of five and it was while at Kenton College, a primary school in Nairobi, under coach Andrew Nderu, that he began to establish himself on the age group scene in Nairobi. At the age of 13, the talented swimmer moved to study at Marlborough College (a high school) in the United Kingdom.
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