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Joseph Hunter Armstrong (born January 24, 2001) is an American
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. He is the
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holder in the
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50 meter backstroke. At the
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, he won a silver medal in the 50 meter backstroke, a bronze medal in the 100 meter backstroke, gold medals in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay and 4×100 meter mixed medley relay, and a silver medal in the 4×100 meter medley relay. At the
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, he won a gold medal in the 4×100 meter medley relay, swimming backstroke in the preliminaries, and placed ninth in the 100 meter backstroke.


Background

Armstrong graduated from Dover High School in
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in 2019, where he competed as part of the Canton City Schools swim program.Metzger, Roger (July 31, 2021)
"Dover's Hunter Armstrong wins a gold medal at Tokyo Olympics"
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Career


2021


2020 US Olympic Trials

Armstrong placed second in the 100 meter backstroke at the 2020 US Olympic Trials in swimming, qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games in the event. In the prelims of the 100 meter freestyle, he swam a 49.31 and ranked 19th overall.
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2020 Summer Olympics

In advance of the
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, Japan, Armstrong received the honor of being the US Olympic swim team member to reveal the captains of the swim team for the Olympic Games, he did so with a magic trick.Dornan, Ben (July 5, 2021)
"Murphy, Dressel, Schmitt & Manuel Named 2020 USA Olympic Swimming Captains"
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Armstrong finished ninth in the semifinals of the 100 meter backstroke on day three of competition.Metzger, Roger (July 30, 2021)
"Hunter Armstrong still in line for an Olympic medal"
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Over 100 people gathered at Dover High School in
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as part of a watch party and watched his semifinal performance.Morse, Gaelen (July 26, 2021)
"A tense Sunday in rural Ohio watching an Olympian do his thing"
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Members of the First Moravian Church in Dover also gathered to support him virtually. On day seven, he swam the backstroke leg of the medley relay in the prelims of the 4x100 meter medley relay, advancing the relay to final alongside fellow relay teammates Andrew Wilson,
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"Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Day 7 Prelims Live Recap"
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De George, Matthew (July 30, 2021)
"Olympics: Italy Set Pace in Men's Medley Relay; U.S. Sneaks in as Seventh Seed"
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On the final day of competition, the finals relay finished first and all of the relay members from the prelims and the final including Armstrong won a
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in the event.Emerson, Jack (August 1, 2021)
"Swimming: Hunter Armstrong Helps Team USA In Heats, Earns Gold Medal In 4x100 Medley Relay"
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Metzger, Roger (August 1, 2021)
"Ohio State swimmer Hunter Armstrong wins an Olympic gold medal"
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2021 World Short Course Championships

For the 2021 World Short Course Championships in
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in December, Armstrong entered to compete in the 100 meter backstroke."2021 FINA Short Course World Championships Roster"
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On December 14, it was announced that Armstrong had withdrawn from the 100 meter backstroke for the Championships.Dornan, Ben (December 14, 2021)
"Hunter Armstrong Pulls Out Of 100 Back At Short Course Worlds: Psych Sheets"
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2022

On the first day of competition at the Tim Welsh Classic in January 2022, Armstrong helped earn three first-place finishes for
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, one in the 100 yard backstroke with a 47.05, one in the 4×200 yard freestyle relay, and one in the 4×50 freestyle relay.De George, Matthew (January 21, 2022)
"Hunter Armstrong's Three Wins Have Ohio State Leading at Tim Welsh Classic"
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2022 Big Ten Championships

On the first day of the 2022 Big Ten Conference Championships in February 2022, Armstrong swam a 20.45 for the backstroke portion of the 4×50 yard medley relay to help achieve a first-place finish in a new Big Ten Conference record time of 1:22.13.Li, Yanyan (February 23, 2022)
"Ohio State Men Break Nine-Year Standing Big Ten Record In 200 Medley Relay"
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The second day of competition, he ranked first in the prelims heats of the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 19.02 seconds and qualified for the final later in the day.Hamann, Michael (February 24, 2022)
"2022 Men's Big Ten Championships: Day 2 Prelim Live Recap"
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In the evening final, he won the conference title with a time of 18.93 seconds, finishing over two-tenths of a second ahead of the second-place finisher.Berman, Sarah (February 24, 2022)
"2022 Men's B1G Championships: Day 2 Finals Live Recap"
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Later in the same finals session, Armstrong swam a 44.36 for the backstroke portion of the 4×100 yard medley relay to contribute to a second-place finish in 3:01.44.De George, Matthew (February 24, 2022)
"2022 Big Ten Men's Championships: Indiana Medley Relay Goes Record-Setting 3:00.95"
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His time of 44.36 seconds set a new Big Ten Conference record and pool record in the 100 yard backstroke and made him the tenth-fastest performer in the event.Keith, Braden (February 24, 2022)
"Hunter Armstrong Breaks Big Ten Record In 100 Back, #10 All-Time"
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Hy-Tek (February 25, 2022)
"2022 B1G Men's Swimming & Diving Championship: Meet Results"
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Armstrong followed up his 44.36 with a 44.90 in the prelims heats of the 100 yard backstroke the following morning, ranking first heading into the final.Miller, Nicole (February 25, 2022)
"2022 Men's Big Ten Championships: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap"
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For the final he placed second, swimming a time of 44.78 seconds.De George, Matthew (February 25, 2022)
"2022 Big Ten Men's Championships, Day 3 Finals: Alex Quach Breaks 45 in 100 Fly"
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Edmund, Emma (February 25, 2022)
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Later in the session, he led-off the 4×50 yard freestyle with an 18.93 to help achieve a first-place finish in a new Championships record and pool record time of 1:15.28. For the prelims heats of the 100 yard freestyle on the fourth and final day of competition, he swam a time of 41.54 seconds to advance to the final ranked first.Pelshaw, Anya (February 26, 2022)
"2022 Men's Big Ten Championships: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap"
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He won the Big Ten Conference title for the event in the final, where he was the only swimmer to finish the race in less than 42 seconds, swimming a time of 41.78 seconds.Keith, Braden (February 26, 2022)
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In his last event of the Championships, he lowered his 100-yard freestyle time to a 41.60 for the lead-off leg of the 4×100 yard freestyle relay, helping set new pool and Championships records in a first-place time of 2:47.16.De George, Matthew (February 26, 2022)
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2022 NCAA Championships

At the 2022 NCAA Championships in March in
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, Armstrong started off competition on day one by helping place twelfth in the 4×50 yard medley relay with a split of 21.19 seconds for the backstroke leg of the relay that contributed to the final time of 1:22.98.D'Addona, Dan (March 23, 2022)
"2022 NCAA Men's Championships: Florida on 200 Medley Relay NCAA Record 'It is Everything to Us'"
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In his second event of the evening, he split a 1:32.18 for the second leg of the 4×200 yard freestyle relay to help place thirteenth in 6:14.54.Hy-Tek (March 26, 2022)
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The evening of day two, he helped achieve a seventh-place finish in the 4×50 yard freestyle relay, splitting a 19.01 for the lead-off leg of the relay.Rieder, David (March 24, 2022)
"NCAA Men's Championships: Kieran Smith Anchors Florida to 200 Free Relay Title; Three Hundredths Off Record"
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He ranked eighth and qualified for the final of the 100 yard backstroke in the prelims heats of the event the following morning, finishing in a time of 44.72 seconds.Hamann, Michael (March 25, 2022)
"2022 NCAA Division I Men's Championships: Day 3 Prelim Live Recap"
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Rieder, David (March 25, 2022)
"NCAA Men's Championships: Brendan Burns Grabs Top Seed in Tight 100 Backstroke Heats"
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In the final, he placed fifth, finishing 0.38 seconds after the first-place finisher with a time of 44.42 seconds.D'Addona, Dan (March 25, 2022)
"2022 NCAA Men's Championships: NC State's Kacper Stokowski Stuns Field With Late Charge to Win 100 Back"
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For the backstroke leg of the 4×100 yard medley relay later in the same session, he swam a 44.74, contributing to a tenth-place finish in 3:03.23. In his final individual event, the 100 yard freestyle on the fourth day, he ranked sixteenth in the prelims heats with a 41.92 and qualified for the b-final.Lohn, John (March 26, 2022)
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He placed eighth in the b-final, sixteenth overall, with a 42.70.D'Addona, Dan (March 26, 2022)
"2022 NCAA Men's Championships: Brooks Curry on Another Hometown Win: 'I've Been Dreaming About This Race'"
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For his final relay event, 4×100 yard freestyle relay, he helped achieve a twelfth-place finish, swimming the lead-off leg of the relay in 41.99 seconds.


2022 International Team Trials

Armstrong swam a personal best time of 48.55 seconds in the 100 meter freestyle on day one of the 2022 US International Team Trials in
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in the preliminary heats, qualifying for the final with an overall sixth-rank.
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He lowered his personal best time an additional three-tenths of a second in the final to tie Drew Kibler for fourth-place with a 48.25.
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Two days later, he set new
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, and US Open records in the 50 meter backstroke with a time of 24.01 seconds in the prelims heats and advanced to the evening final ranking first.
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Rieder, David (April 28, 2022)
"U.S. International Team Trials: Hunter Armstrong Breaks 50 Back American Record; Justin Ress Just 0.04 Behind"
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In the final, he set a new
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in the event with a time of 23.71 seconds, breaking the former record of 23.80 seconds set by
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of Russia in 2021 and qualifying for the
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team.
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"Hunter Armstrong breaks world record at swimming trials"
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For the prelims heats of the 100 meter backstroke on day four, he qualified for the final ranking fourth with a 53.55.
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He won the 100 meter backstroke with a personal best time of 52.20 seconds, qualifying for the World Championships team in the event.
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Swimming a personal best time of 22.12 seconds in the 50 meter freestyle morning prelims heats on day five of five, he qualified for the evening final ranking sixth.
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Improving upon his personal best time in the final, with a 22.00, he tied David Curtiss for fifth-place.
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In addition to his backstroke events, Armstrong was named to the World Championships team in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay for his fourth-place finish in the 100 meter freestyle."2022 FINA World Championships Roster"
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2022 World Aquatics Championships

Armstrong swam a 48.34 for the lead-off leg of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the prelims at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships on the first day of swimming competition, helping qualify the relay for the final ranking first overall.
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On the finals relay,
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substituted in for him and Armstrong won a medal for his efforts when the finals relay placed first in a time of 3:09.34.
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The following morning, he ranked first in the prelims of the 100 meter backstroke, qualifying for the semifinals with a time of 52.81 seconds.
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Later the same day, he qualified for the final with a time of 52.37 seconds and third-rank in the semifinals.
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In the final of the 100 meter backstroke the following day, he won the bronze medal with a time of 51.98 seconds, finishing less than four-tenths of a second behind gold medalist
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The following day, he split a 52.14 for the backstroke leg of the 4×100 meter mixed medley relay in the final to help win the gold medal with a time of 3:38.79.
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On day seven, Armstrong swam a 24.63 in the prelims of the 50 meter backstroke, ranking fourth overall and qualifying for the semifinals.
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Later in the day, in the evening semifinals, he lowered his time by almost half a second, qualifying for the final with a time of 24.16 seconds and overall rank of second.
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The eighth and final day, he split a 53.70 for the backstroke leg of the 4×100 meter medley relay in the prelims to help qualify the relay to the final ranking first.
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In the evening, he won the gold medal in the 50 metre backstroke with a time of 24.14 seconds, sharing the podium as the medal ceremony with
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and Thomas Ceccon, before another American swimmer had their disqualification for an illegal finish overturned, was awarded the gold medal, and Armstrong was bumped down to a silver medal."Italy pips US men to relay gold in swimming worlds finale"
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Later in the session, Armstrong won a silver medal in the 4×100 meter medley relay when the finals relay, on which Ryan Murphy substituted in for him, finished second in 3:27.79.
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2022 Swimming World Cup

In the preliminary heats of the 50 meter freestyle at his first
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in November, Armstrong qualified for the final ranking sixth with a personal best time of 21.63 seconds.
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He decreased his personal best time in the final to 21.45 seconds, placing fifth.
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On day two, he ranked tenth in the preliminary heats of the 50 meter backstroke with a personal best time of 23.70 seconds, not qualifying for the final.
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Later in the same session he ranked twenty-first in the 100 meter freestyle with a personal best time of 48.27 seconds, which was 0.05 seconds faster than fellow American and twenty-second ranked
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The third day, he ranked ninth in the preliminary heats of the 100 meter backstroke with a personal best time of 51.88 seconds.
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2022 U.S. Open Championships

Gaining additional competition preparation leading up to the 2022 World Short Course Championships, Armstrong placed second in the b-final of the 50 meter freestyle at the 2022 U.S. Open Swimming Championships on day two with a time of 22.47 seconds.
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In the finals of the 100 meter backstroke on day three, he won the b-final with a 53.61, a time which was only slower than the 53.07 swam by a-final winner
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On day four of four, he tied
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for fifth-place in the b-final of the 100 meter freestyle with a time of 50.23 seconds.
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2022 World Short Course Championships

Approximately two months before the start of the 2022 World Short Course Championships, held with competition beginning December 13, in
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, Armstrong was named to the roster in the 100 meter freestyle, 50 meter backstroke, and 100 meter backstroke."2022 FINA World Championships (25m) Roster"
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"Five Buckeyes to Compete at FINA World Championships"
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In his first event, the 100 meter backstroke, he placed seventeenth in the preliminaries on day one with a personal best time of 50.93 seconds.
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For his second event, the 100 meter freestyle, he achieved a three-way tie for nineteenth-place in the preliminaries with a personal best time of 47.11 seconds.
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He qualified for his first semifinal on day three, ranking eighth in the preliminaries of the 50 meter backstroke with a personal best time of 23.18 seconds.
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Later in the session, he helped qualify the 4×50 meter freestyle relay to the final ranking second in 1:24.07, splitting a 20.94 for the third leg of the relay.
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On the third evening, he tied for eighth-rank in the 50 meter backstroke semifinals with a personal best time of 23.05 seconds that qualified him for a swim-off and then placed fifth in the 4×50 meter freestyle relay with a finals relay time of 1:24.03.
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"Buckeyes Shine at FINA World Championships"
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Day four, Armstrong started off with a 20.81 on the second leg of the 4×50 meter mixed freestyle relay in the preliminaries, contributing to a total time of 1:29.97 and helping qualify for the final ranking fourth.
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Later in the morning, he lost the swim-off against
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for the last spot in the final of the 50 meter backstroke with a time of 23.30 seconds.
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In the evening, he was replaced by a fellow roster member on the finals relay and the finals relay finished in a time of 1:29.18 to take fourth-place.
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The penultimate morning, he helped qualify the 4×50 meter medley relay for the final in fifth-rank with a backstroke time of 23.34 seconds that contributed to the preliminary mark of 1:32.67.
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The finals relay finished second in a time of 1:30.37, and he and the other prelims and finals relay members won the silver medal for their efforts.
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"Flickinger Leads Way on FINA World Championships (25m) Night Five"
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Achieving a personal best time of 50.68 seconds in the 4×100 meter medley relay for the backstroke leg in the preliminaries, Armstrong and his fellow prelims relay teammates qualified the relay for the final ranking first with a time of 3:23.65.
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Handing the backstroke over to Ryan Murphy for the finals relay, he won a gold medal for his contribution when the finals relay tied Australia for first in a world record time of 3:18.98.
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International championships (50 m)

: Armstrong swam only in the preliminary heats.


International championships (25 m)

: Armstrong swam only in the preliminary heats.


Personal best times


Long course meters (50 m pool)


Short course meters (25 m pool)

Legend: h – preliminary heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg


Short course yards (25 yd pool)

Legend: h – preliminary heat; r – relay 1st leg


World records


Long course meters (50 m pool)


Continental and national records


Long course meters (50 m pool)


Awards and honors

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, Athlete of the Year (male): 2022Rabinowitz, Bill (June 17, 2022)
"Hunter Armstrong, Sophie Jaques named Ohio State's Athletes of the Year"
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"Ultra Swimmer of the Month: Hunter Armstrong"
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See also

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World record progression 50 metres backstroke This is a listing of the history of the World Record for the 50 backstroke swimming event. Swimming World Records are maintained by FINA, the international sports federation which oversees the sport. World Records are recognized only in meter-cou ...


References


External links

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