Bradlee Logan Taylor Ashby (born 23 November 1995) is a New Zealand swimmer who represented his country at the
2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil. He competed in the men's
200-meter individual medley and
200-meter butterfly.
Personal life
Ashby was born on 23 November 1995.
He is studying for a bachelor's degree in Business Studies at
Massey University.
Career
Ashby trains in Auckland as part of the Swimming New Zealand High-Performance squad. He is a member of North Shore Swimming club in Auckland.
His first international appearances representing New Zealand were in 2013 at the
Australian Youth Olympic Festival and the
FINA World Junior Championships, where he competed in the 200 and 400 metre individual medley events,
finishing 17th in the 400 metre event in a time of four minutes 30.34 seconds.
In 2015 he competed at the
16th FINA World Championships held in
Kazan
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, Russia. He took part in the 100 metre and 200 metre butterfly, the 200 metre individual medley and swam the butterfly leg in the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay.
He did not advance from the heats in any of his events finishing 47th in the 100 metre butterfly, 33rd in the 200 metre butterfly, 25th in the medley, and 16th in the medley relay.
At the 2016 New Zealand open swimming championships he broke the national record in the men's 200 metres individual medley in his heat, reaching the qualification standard for the
2016 Summer Olympics in the process. His finishing time of exactly two minutes was 28/100ths of a second under the qualifying time for the Olympics, and 0.3 seconds inside the previous national record set by
Dean Kent in 2007. He went on to win both the 200 metres individual medley and 200 meters backstroke events, finishing the backstroke final in a time of two minutes 1.40 seconds.
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1995 births
Living people
New Zealand male swimmers
Massey University alumni
Olympic swimmers of New Zealand
Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Male butterfly swimmers
Male medley swimmers
Swimmers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand
20th-century New Zealand people
21st-century New Zealand people