Michael Jamieson (born 5 August 1988) is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain at the Olympics, FINA world championships and European championships, and Scotland in the Commonwealth Games. Jamieson won the silver medal in the men's 200-metre breaststroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He now is the Head Coach for the Swimming Club, Natare West London.

Personal life

His father, also named Michael, was a professional

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who played for Albion Rovers,

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and Stenhousemuir in the 1980s. Jamieson also played football, but decided to focus on swimming when he was thirteen years old. He currently resides and studies in Bath, England.

Swimming career

Competing for

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, he won a silver medal behind his arch-rival

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in the 200-metre breaststroke. He broke the British record three times in the process, twice in the qualifying heats and once in the final (2:07.43), and came to within 0.12 seconds of the previous world record set by Christian Sprenger in 2009 (2:07.31). Only a new world record by two-time world 200 m breaststroke champion

denied Jamieson the gold. He previously competed in the men's 100-metre breaststroke, finishing in 3rd place in the second semifinal, but failed to reach the final. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he won a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke behind

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. He retired from competitive swimming in 2016 and began working as a swimming coach.

Honours

Jamieson was inducted into the Scottish Swimming Hall of Fame in 2018.

References

1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Glasgow Scottish male swimmers Olympic swimmers of Great Britain Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Male breaststroke swimmers Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Alumni of the University of Bath Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Scotland Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Olympic silver medalists in swimming Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Team Bath swimmers Scottish Olympic medallists {{UK-swimming-Olympic-medalist-stub

Personal life

Swimming career

Honours

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