Archie Goodburn (born 26 June 2001) is a swimmer from Scotland, who is a British Champion and competed in the Commonwealth Games.
Career
Goodburn made his
Commonwealth Games
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debut in the
men's 50-metre breaststroke.
He won a bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke at the 2019 World Junior Swimming Championships and won the gold medal at the
2023 British Swimming Championships, in the
50 metres breaststroke.
Personal life
In June 2024 Goodburn announced that he had been diagnosed with three
oligodendroglioma
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s, a form of cancer that can affect the brain and spinal cord, and that he would be undergoing courses of
chemotherapy
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and
radiotherapy
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to address this issue.
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2001 births
Living people
Scottish male breaststroke swimmers
British male breaststroke swimmers
Swimmers from Edinburgh
Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland
21st-century Scottish sportsmen
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