Lewis Edward Burras (born 12 February 2000) is a British competitive

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. He is the British record holder in the

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100 metre freestyle. He is a

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silver medalist in the 50 metre freestyle, 4×100 metre freestyle relay, and 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay, swimming on the finals relay for both relay events. At the

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, he won a bronze medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, swimming freestyle on the prelims relay, placed seventh in the 50 metre freestyle and seventh in the 100 metre freestyle. He placed eighth in the final of the 50 metre freestyle and twelfth in the semifinals of the 100 metre freestyle at the 2022 World Short Course Championships.

Background

Burras was born 12 February 2000."Lewis Burras"
''

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''. Retrieved 15 July 2022. He attended

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for high school, where he competed scholastically as part of the school swim team, and attended the University of South Carolina in the

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for university, where he competed collegiately as part of the

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swim team."Lewis Burras"
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''. Retrieved 15 July 2022. In international competition, he competes representing

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and

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."Swimmers to represent Team England at Commonwealth Games confirmed"
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''. 11 May 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022."Budapest–Bound Team Named For 2022 World Championships"
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''. 14 April 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.

Career

2017 World Junior Championships

For the

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, held in August in

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, Burras placed 24th in the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 51.03 seconds, and ranked seventh in the preliminaries of the 50 metre freestyle with a 22.70 before being disqualified in the semifinals.

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(28 August 2017)
"6th FINA World Junior Championships 2017 Indianapolis (USA): Results Book"
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''. Retrieved 3 September 2022.

2018 European Junior Championships

At the

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, held in

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in July, Burras won two medals.

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(8 July 2018)
"2018 Helsinki LEN European Junior Championships Swimming: Results book"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 15 July 2022. In the 50 metre freestyle, he won the bronze medal with a time of 22.69 seconds, finishing within one-tenth of a second of silver medalist

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."Great Britain third in European Junior Swimming Championships medal table"
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''. 9 July 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2022."Dubai Swimmer Secures Podium Finish in European Swimming Championships"
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"Swimming: Nathan shines on the international stage"
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''. Retrieved 15 July 2022. He won his second medal in the 4×100 metre mixed medley relay, splitting a 49.13 for the freestyle leg of the relay in the preliminaries to help qualify the relay to the final ranking first, where the finals relay placed second in a time of 3:51.43 and Burras won a silver medal for his contributions in the preliminaries.

2022

2022 British Swimming Championships

In April 2022, at the year's British Swimming Championships, held at

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, Burras won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a personal best time of 47.88 seconds."Emotional win for Lewis Burras as he takes British title on day three in Sheffield"
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''. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022. A few days later, he won the gold medal in the 50 metre freestyle with a personal best time of 21.77 seconds."Winchester's Lewis Burras crowned sprint king at British Swimming Championships"
'' Swim England South East''. 10 April 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022. Based on his results at the Championships, he was named to the

team representing

and the

team representing

2022 World Aquatics Championships

Burras started off on the first day of pool swimming competition, day two overall, at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, held at

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in June in

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, with a fourth-place finish in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, helping achieve a new British record and

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record time of 3:11:14 with a lead-off time of 48.09 seconds.

(18 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Men's 4x100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 15 July 2022."Men Smash British Relay Record In Opening Finals"
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British Swimming British Swimming is the national governing body of swimming, water polo, synchronised swimming, diving and open water in Great Britain.

''. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022. Three days later, in the semifinals of the 100 metre freestyle, he swam a personal best time of 47.63 seconds to set new British and English records in the event and qualify for the final ranking fourth.

(21 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Men's 100m Freestyle Semifinals Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 15 July 2022."New British best for Lewis Burras on a night of near misses in Hungary"
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''. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.Simon, Nigel (22 June 2022)
"Carter 14th in 100m freestyle swim"
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''. Retrieved 15 July 2022. The following day, he placed seventh in the final with a time of 48.23 seconds.

(22 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Men's 100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 15 July 2022. In the 50 metre freestyle final two days later, he achieved a time of 21.81 seconds to place seventh and finish 0.24 seconds behind bronze medalist

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(24 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Men's 50m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 15 July 2022. For the final day of pool swimming, the next day, he helped achieve a fourth-place finish in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay in a time of 3:22.44, swimming the second 100 metres portion of the relay in 47.86 seconds.

(24 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 15 July 2022. He also split a 47.90 for the freestyle leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay in the preliminaries, helping qualify the relay to the final ranking fifth.

(25 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 15 July 2022. On the finals relay in the evening, he was substituted out, Tom Dean was substituted in, and all preliminaries and finals relay members won a bronze medal when the finals relay finished third in 3:31.31.

(25 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 15 July 2022.

2022 Commonwealth Games

In his first event of

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, the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay on day one of competition, conducted at

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, Burras led-off the finals relay with a time of 48.28 seconds to help win the silver medal in 3:22.45."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final Results"
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''. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022."Team England bag two silvers on opening finals night of Commonwealth Games"
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''. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022.Clark, Daniel (30 July 2022)
"Commonwealth Games: Plymouth swimmer Lewis Burras wins silver in Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay"
'' The Herald''. Retrieved 30 July 2022. Leading off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the final of the event the following day, he swam a 48.39 to help achieve a time of 3:11.73 and win the silver medal."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final Results"
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''. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022."Seven medal successes for Team England swimmers on impressive day two"
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''. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022. In the preliminaries of the 100 metre freestyle the following day, he was one of three swimmers representing England to qualify for the semifinals, ranking twelfth overall with his time of 49.70 seconds."Job done for Team England swimmers as nine finals session spots secured"
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''. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022. He placed thirteenth in the semifinals with a time of 49.96 seconds."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 100m Freestyle Semi-Finals Results Summary"
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''. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022. For the preliminaries of the 50 metre freestyle on day five, Burras ranked as the fastest swimmer across all heats with a time of 22.09 seconds, which was 0.45 seconds faster than fellow semifinals qualifier and Englishman

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, who ranked third overall."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 50m Freestyle Heats Results Summary"
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''. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022."Ben Proud powers into semis of men's 50m freestyle at Commonwealth Games"
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''. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022. Lowering his time to a 21.92 in the semifinals, he qualified for the final ranking second."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 50m Freestyle Semi-Finals Results Summary"
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''. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022. In the final, he finished in a person best time of 21.68 seconds to win the silver medal behind Ben Proud."Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games: Men's 50m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022."Carter misses out on Commonwealth medal with 4th place in 50m freestyle"
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''. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.

2022 World Short Course Championships

In October, Burras was named to the

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roster for the 2022 World Short Course Championships, held in December following the transplanting of the meet from the

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, to the

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."British team named for Melbourne's World Short Course Champs"
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British Swimming British Swimming is the national governing body of swimming, water polo, synchronised swimming, diving and open water in Great Britain.

''. 21 October 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2022. For the 50 metre butterfly on day one, 13 December, he placed thirty-fifth overall with a personal best time of 23.18 seconds.

(13 December 2022)
"16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 50m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 13 December 2022. The second morning, he swam a personal best time of 46.92 seconds in the preliminaries of the 100 metre freestyle, dropping 3.99 seconds from his previous best mark of 50.91 seconds to qualify for the semifinals ranking thirteenth.

(14 December 2022)
"16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 100m Freestyle Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 14 December 2022. He placed twelfth in the semifinals with a personal best time of 46.61 seconds.

(14 December 2022)
"16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 100m Freestyle Semifinals Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 14 December 2022."Peaty and Dean secure progression to finals"
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''. 14 December 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2022. Day four, he achieved a 2.52 second drop from his personal best time of 23.52 seconds from 2016 in the preliminaries of the 50 metre freestyle, qualifying for the semifinals ranking sixth with his new personal best time of 21.00 seconds.

(16 December 2022)
"16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 50m Freestyle Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 16 December 2022. He further lowered his personal best time in the semifinals, achieving a time of 20.94 seconds to qualify for the final tied in rank for fifth with Dylan Carter of

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"16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 50m Freestyle Semifinals Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 16 December 2022. In the final of the 50 metre freestyle the following day he placed eighth, finishing 0.03 seconds behind seventh-place finisher

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of Australia and 0.49 seconds behind gold medalist Jordan Crooks of the

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with a time of 20.95 seconds.

(17 December 2022)
"16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 50m Freestyle Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 17 December 2022."Proud and Hopkin dash their way to the podium to add to Britain's medal tally"
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''. 17 December 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2022.

International championships (50 m)

: Burras swam only in the prelims heats.

International championships (25 m)

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Legend: sf – semifinal

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Legend: h – preliminary heat; sf – semifinal

National records

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Legend: sf – semifinal

References

External links

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