Kieran Bird
 Bird at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Kieran James Bird |
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 2 September 1999 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | freestyle |
Medal record | |
Kieran James Bird (born 2 September 1999) is a British swimmer who competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics.[2][3]
Biography
[edit]Bird attended Millfield School.[4] he is of Welsh descent through his father.[5]
He competed in the men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships, in Budapest, Hungary.[6]
Bird won the 400 metres freestyle at the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships[7] and was subsequently named in the British team for the 2024 Summer Olympics.[8] He swam in the heats of the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay and while he was replaced by Matt Richards for the final, as a heat swimmer he was awarded a gold medal when the British team won.[9][10]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Kieran Bird". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- ↑ "Bicester swimmer Kieran Bird picked for Tokyo Olympics". Oxford Mail. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ↑ "'We're not going to Tokyo for the tracksuits' - meet two rising stars of Welsh swimming". BBC Sport. 17 May 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ↑ "15 Old Millfieldians prepare for the Commonwealth Games 2022". Millfield School. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
- ↑ "'We're not going to Tokyo for the tracksuits' - meet two rising stars of Welsh swimming". 17 May 2021 – via www.bbc.com.
- ↑ "Men's 400 metre freestyle: Start list" (PDF). Budapest 2000. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ "Speedo Aquatics GB Swimming Championships 2024". Swimming.org. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ↑ "Paris Olympics 2024: Team GB name swimming squad for Games". BBC Sport. 16 April 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
- ↑ Matthew Henry (30 July 2024). "GB retain relay title to win first swimming gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ↑ "BIRD Kieran". Paris 2024 Olympics. Archived from the original on 6 October 2024. (alternate link)
External links
[edit]- Kieran Bird at World Aquatics
- Kieran Bird at British Swimming
- Kieran Bird at Team GB
- Kieran Bird at Team Wales (archived)
- Kieran Bird at Olympics.com
- Kieran Bird at InterSportStats
- Kieran Bird on Instagram
Categories:
- 1999 births
- Living people
- British male freestyle swimmers
- English male freestyle swimmers
- Welsh male freestyle swimmers
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic gold medalists in swimming
- Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games swimmers for Wales
- Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- People educated at Millfield
- English people of Welsh descent
- Sportspeople from Bicester
- Sportspeople from Oxfordshire
- 21st-century English sportsmen