Garrett Weber-Gale
Garrett Weber-Gale 
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| Surname: | Garrett Weber-Gale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 United States
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| Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | Longhorn Aquatics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | August 6, 1985 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Stevens Point , Wisconsin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.88 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 81 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Garrett Weber-Gale (born August 6, 1985 in Stevens Point , Wisconsin ) is an American swimmer on the freestyle courses.
Career
Garrett Weber-Gale lives in Austin and studies at the University of Texas , for whose swim team he also competes. The corporate communications student is trained by Eddie Reese. In 2004 Weber-Gale won his first national title in the 100 m freestyle, in 2006 the National Collegiate Athletic Association . He was one of the US squadrons that won the 4 × 100 m freestyle title in Montreal in 2005 and Melbourne in 2007 . However, he was only used in the heats and not in the finals. At the US Trials in 2008 , he won the 50 m and 100 m freestyle and thus qualified for the freestyle relay and the 100 m freestyle route of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . There the swimmer from Milwaukee celebrated his greatest success so far by winning the gold medal in the relay in a world record time (3: 08.24 min).
Records
| World records (2) | |||
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| 4 × 100 m freestyle (with Lezak , Jones and Phelps ) | 03:08:24 min | August 11, 2008 | Beijing |
| 4 × 100 m freestyle (short course) (with Adrian , Grevers and Phelps ) | 03: 03.30 min | December 19, 2009 | Manchester |
| (As of August 7, 2010) | |||
Web links
- Portrait on the website of the IOC ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Portrait at teamusa.org
- Garrett Weber-Gale in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
- Garrett Weber-Gale in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Weber-Gale, Garrett |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stevens Point , Wisconsin , United States |