Morgan Knabe
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's swimming | ||
Representing  Canada
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| World Championships (SC) | ||
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1999 Hong Kong | 100 m breaststroke |
| Commonwealth Games | ||
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2002 Manchester[1] | 100 m breaststroke |
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2002 Manchester | 4 x 100 m medley relay |
| Pan American Games | ||
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1999 Winnipeg | 200 m breaststroke |
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1999 Winnipeg | 4x100 m medley |
| Pan Pacific Championships | ||
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1999 Sydney | 4x100 m medley |
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1997 Fukuoka | 4x100 m medley |
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1999 Sydney | 100 m breaststroke |
Morgan Knabe (born May 20, 1981 in Calgary, Alberta) is a breaststroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. His best Olympic results were a sixth place in the 100m Breaststroke, and with the Men's 4x100m Medley Relay in Sydney, Australia.
Knabe grew up idolizing the late Victor Davis and erased the latter's Canadian records by 2002. Knabe holds the all Canadian breaststroke marks (short course and long course) except for the 200 breaststroke long course which was bettered by Mike Brown.
In the early part of Knabe's career, he was known to be outspoken. He once accused Olympic gold medallist Domenico Fioravanti of using drugs, saying he wanted to punch the Italian, for which he later apologized. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, he told the British he planned on "kicking the Brits' (butts)".
He married Joanne, a Kiwi, in New Zealand on September 2002.
At the Athens Olympics, despite his expectations of a medal finish, he put in a poor performances in both events and failed to get past the first round. His father Reinhold Knabe blamed Morgan's disastrous 100m breaststroke swim on the National Sport Centre in Calgary. After the Games, head coach Dave Johnson was fired.
References
- ^ "BBC Sport Commonwealth Games 2002 Statistics". Retrieved 2007-08-29.
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