Cameron McEvoy

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Cameron McEvoy
File:Kazan 2015 - McEvoy and Guy 200m freestyle semi.JPG
McEvoy in Kazan 2015
Personal information
Full name Cameron McEvoy
Nickname(s) "The Professor"[1][2]
National team  Australia
Born (1994-05-13) 13 May 1994 (age 29)[3]
Gold Coast, Queensland[3]
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[3]
Weight 70 kg (150 lb)[citation needed]
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Bond University[4]
Coach Richard Scarce[5]

Cameron McEvoy (born 13 May 1994) is an Australian competitive swimmer who represented his country at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[6]

Career

Junior

At the 2011 World Junior Championships in Lima, Peru, McEvoy won gold medals in the 50 m and 100 m freestyle, and a bronze in the 200 m freestyle.[7]

Senior

McEvoy swam in the heats of the 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 200 m freestyle relays at the 2012 Olympics in London. Australia went on to finish in fourth and fifth place, respectively.[8] At the 2013 and 2015 World Aquatics Championships he has won a total of four medals, including the silver medal in the 100-metre freestyle in 2015.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he won six medals. A month later at the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships, he won five medals including the gold medal in the 100-metre freestyle. He also won national titles in the 100- and 200-metre freestyle in 2014 and 2015.

At the 2016 National Championships and Olympic trials, McEvoy qualified for the Olympics in the 200-metre freestyle, by finishing first, tied with Thomas Fraser-Holmes.[9] He also qualified in the 100-metre freestyle by winning the race. His time of 47.04 broke the Australian and Commonwealth records and is the fastest time ever in a textile swimsuit.[10] He qualified for a third individual event when he won the 50-metre freestyle in a new personal best of 21.44.[11]

Personal life

McEvoy is a physics and mathematics student at Griffith University.[12] At the 2016 Olympic trials he gained attention by wearing a swim cap with the signal of two merging black holes to celebrate the first observation of gravitational waves that was announced two months earlier.[12][13][14] The year before he wore a cap showing a Feynman diagram of a positron and an electron annihilating.[14]

Career best times

Event Time Record Meet
Long course
50 m freestyle 21.44[11] 2016 Australian Championships
100 m freestyle 47.04[10] AR, CR, OC 2016 Australian Championships
200 m freestyle 1:45.46 2014 Australian Championships
Short course
50 m freestyle 20.75 AR, OC 2015 Australian Short Course Championships
100 m freestyle 46.31 2015 Australian Short Course Championships
200 m freestyle 1:40.80 AR, CR (shared), OC 2015 Australian Short Course Championships

See also

References

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External links

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