Simon Burnett
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| Full name | Simon Andrew Burnett | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Great Britain
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| Born |
14 April 1983 Oxford, England |
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| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Wycombe District | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Arizona (U.S.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Simon Andrew Burnett (born 14 April 1983) is an English competition swimmer who has represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games.
He holds the British Records in the 100 and 200-metre freestyles, he trains at the USA's University of Arizona—where he attended—and in 2007 signed a sponsorship deal with Nike.
Simon was born at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, the second of the three sons of Ray Burnett and Melanie Verhoeven. He lived in the Oxfordshire village of Chinnor as a child, and then moved a few miles to Tetsworth, attending Lord Williams's School in Thame, Oxfordshire. After completing his GCSEs, he went to John Hampden Grammar School, in High Wycombe, to study chemistry, biology, and physics at A-level. He first swam at Wycombe District Swimming Pool from a very young age, and soon joined the Wycombe District Swimming Club, where he remained until 2003. He was coached by Bob Pay and his move to John Hampden, which was local to the Wycombe Sports Centre at which he trained, helped him focus further on swimming. In 2003, with the help of Pay, Burnett won a sports scholarship at the University of Arizona to study business. He now swims for the Arizona Wildcats under coach Frank Busch and lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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