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Wednesday, 14 March 2018

Do you know Danyon Loader?

A couple of weeks ago our school reopen our school pool because it was broken
so we have been doing class swimming and swimming at lunch time on wednesday and thrusday

Because we have been doing swimming my mum told me to write a speech about Danyon so I did here it is


The 42 year old ONZM Olympic champion and former world record holder swimmer from New Zealand,Based in Dunedin.He remains the national record holder in the 400 and 1500 metre freestyle short course and his name is Danyon Joseph Loader.Who is born on 21 april 1975 in Timaru.He weighs in at 84 kg and his height is 1.88 m.He swam for New Zealand at two Summer Olympics (1992, 1996) and three Commonwealth Games (1990, 1994 and 1998).At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, he won a silver medal in the 200 metre butterfly. In 1996 in Atlanta, Danyon won two gold medals: in the 200 and 400 metre freestyle.


Danyon loader also won three other golds medals (1993 Kobe for 200 m butterfly,1995 Atlanta for 200 m freestyle and 1994 Victoria for 200 m butterfly again).He also won 10 bronze medals. (2 in 1993 in kobe 1 for 100 m butterfly and 4x200 m freestyle,then in 1995 in atlanta 1 for 4x200 m freestyle and 4x100 m freestyle, and 6 more others) All together he has won 21 medals

He set world records in the short course 200 butterfly and 400 freestyle and was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2003.Thank you for listening to my speech about Nz’s Swimmer Danyon Joseph Loader.

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