Nathan Adrian

Nathan Adrian
Nathan Adrian 2016
Personal information
Surname:	Nathan Adrian
Nickname (s):	Bok Choi
Nation:	United States
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Birthday:	December 7, 1988
Place of birth:	Bremerton
Size:	1.98 m
Weight:	100 kg
Medal table

Nathan Ghar-jun Adrian (born December 7, 1988 in Bremerton ) is an American freestyle swimmer . In 2012 he won an Olympic gold medal in the 100 m freestyle.

Career

At the short course world championships in Manchester in 2008 Adrian won the gold medal in the 100 m freestyle ahead of the Italian Filippo Magnini . He also won a gold medal with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, with which he was able to set a new world record. He also took the silver medal behind the Russians with the 4 × 100 m individual relay relay.

At the 2008 Olympics , he could not qualify for any individual decision for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . Over 100 m freestyle he was fourth and over 50 m freestyle only sixth. But with fourth place he qualified for the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.

At the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro he won the bronze medal in the individual races over 50 m and 100 m freestyle and the gold medal with the two relays of 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 medley.

Records

World records (1)
4 × 100 m freestyle (short course) (with Grevers , Weber-Gale and Phelps )	03: 03.30 min	December 19, 2009	Manchester
(As of October 22, 2011)

Web links

Commons : Nathan Adrian  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Nathan Adrian in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Nathan Adrian in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )