Michael Brinegar (born September 15, 1999) is an American
swimmer specializing in distance freestyle and
open water swimming
Open water swimming is a swimming discipline which takes place in outdoor bodies of water such as open oceans, lakes, and rivers.
The beginning of the modern age of open water swimming is sometimes taken to be May 3, 1810, when Lord Byron swam s ...
.
He participated at the
2019 World Aquatics Championships
The 2019 World Aquatics Championships were the 18th FINA World Aquatics Championships, held in Gwangju, South Korea from 12 to 28 July 2019. The city had previously hosted the 2015 Summer Universiade aquatics events in the same venues. , winning a medal.
Career
College
Brinegar attends
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, or simply Indiana) is a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the flagship campus of Indiana University and, with over 40,000 students, its largest ca ...
, where he competes for the
Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving
The Indiana Hoosiers are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of Indiana University Bloomington, named after the colloquial term for people from the state of Indiana. The Hoosiers participate in Division I of the National Collegiate Ath ...
team. After the close of his freshman year in the spring of 2019 he chose to redshirt the following year and elected to train in California with the Mission Viejo Nadadores. He returned to Bloomington for his sophomore year fall 2020.
At the
NCAA Men's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships
The NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships are annual college championship events in the United States.
The meets take place in a 25-yard pool, except for the Division I meets in 2000 and 2004 which were swum in a 25-meter competi ...
during his freshman year, he placed second at the NCAA Championship in the 1,650 yard freestyle (14:27.50).
2020 Olympic Trials
In 2021, Brinegar placed second in the 800m freestyle at the 2020 US Olympic Team Trials, qualifying him for the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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1999 births
Living people
American male freestyle swimmers
World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming
Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Indiana
People from Columbus, Indiana
Indiana Hoosiers men's swimmers
20th-century American people
21st-century American people
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