Daniel Wallace (swimmer)
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| National team |
 Great Britain | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
14 April 1993 Edinburgh, Scotland | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, Individual medley | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Warrender Baths Club | |||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Florida | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Daniel Wallace (born 14 April 1993) is a British competition swimmer and Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
Competing for Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, Wallace won the gold medal in the men's 400-metre individual medley with a first-place time 4:11.28.[1] He also won a silver medal in the 200-metre individual medley and silver as a member of the second-place Scottish team in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay.[2]
He is originally from Edinburgh, and trained under head coach Laurel Bailey at Warrender Baths Club. In 2011, Wallace won a silver medal for the 200-metre individual medley and bronze for the 400-metre individual medley at the 2011 European Junior Swimming Championships in Belgrade.[2]
Wallace accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, United States, where he is a fourth-year university senior and swims for coach Gregg Troy's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC) competition. In his three previous seasons of college swimming, he was a member of the Gators' NCAA national championship relay team in the 4x200-yard freestyle relay as a sophomore in 2013, and was NCAA national runner-up in the 500-yard freestyle event as a junior in 2014. To date, he is the recipient of seven All-American honors.[3]
References
- ↑ "Glasgow 2014: Daniel Wallace wins 400m individual medley gold," BBC.com (25 July 2014). Retrieved 6 September 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Successful Dan Wallace. Swimming.org (2014). Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ↑ GatorZone.com, Men's Swimming & Diving, 2014 Roster, Dan Wallace. Retrieved 6 September 2014.