James Guy (swimmer)

James Guy

Personal information
Full name James Guy
Nickname(s) "Jimmy"
National team  Great Britain
Born (1995-11-26) 26 November 1995
Bury, England
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 83 kg (183 lb; 13.1 st)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Millfield School
Coach Jol Finck, Euan Dale

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 events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships.

Career

A prodigious junior, Guy 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.[1]

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.[2][3]

At the same event, Guy struck gold again in the 4x200m freestyle relay. Team GB was third at the last take over, when Guy took over. He swam his 200 in a 1:44.7, the quickest time across the pool and securing Great Britain the Gold medal for the first time at the worlds in this event.

Achievements

He followed that up with double gold (200m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle) at his second European Junior Championships in Poznan, then made his senior international debut at the World Championships in Barcelona, lowering his British Age Group record (17 yrs) to finish fifth in the 400m Freestyle, then setting another British Age Group record (17 yrs) as the lead-off in the 4x200m Freestyle Relay as the British quartet finished seventh.

Guy finished his breakthrough season with three medals at the World Junior Championships in Dubai, landing silver over 200m and 400m Freestyle then anchoring the British quartet to 4x200m Freestyle Relay gold in a Championship record.

In 2014, Guy laid down a signal of intent with a hat-trick of golds at the British Gas Swimming Championships, taking the touch in the 200m Free, 400m Free and 200m Fly, and breaking the British record in the 400m Free.

He won his first senior international medal later in the season, lowering the British record again to claim 400m Freestyle bronze for England on his Commonwealth debut at Glasgow 2014.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "James Guy biography".
  2. ↑ "James Guy wins World Swimming 200m freestyle gold". BBC Sport. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "James Guy wins historic freestyle gold as Adam Peaty sets breaststroke record". Guardian. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
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