BRINEGAR Michael

Date of Birth: 15 Sep 1999

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Men's 800m Freestyle
	Men's 1500m Freestyle

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 800m Freestyle - Heat 4	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 1500m Freestyle - Heat 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

SWIMMING

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	800Free	1500Free
2018	Tokyo, JPN	9th (7:58.79)	7th (15:07.04)

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	800Free	1500Free
2017	Indianapolis, IN, USA	3rd (7:57.22)	2nd (15:09.00)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

MARATHON SWIMMING

World Championships

Year	Location	5km	5km - TR X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	12	3

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	10km
2018	Tokyo, JPN	OOR

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	10km
2017	1 x 43rd

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
43	2017	10km	Hong Kong, CHN

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	10km	5km - TR X
2018	Eilat, ISR	1	2

Legend
X - Mixed, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, TR - Team Relay, TTT - Team Time Trial

Hobbies:

Playing video games, watching films. (usaswimming.org, 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete

Education:

Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America

Languages spoken:

English

Club name:

Mission Viejo Nadadores [USA] / Indiana University Hoosiers [USA]

Coach:

Mark Schubert [Mission Viejo]; Ray Looze [Indiana]

Sporting relatives:

His mother Jennifer Hooker Brinegar finished sixth in the women's 200m freestyle at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. His father Jamie [athletics] and brother Kevin [swimming] have competed at collegiate level in the United States of America. (indystar.com, 20 Jun 2021; swimswam.com, 2018; SportsDeskOnline, 14 Jul 2021)

Other sports:

He won bronze in the mixed 5km team relay in open water swimming at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. (indystar.com, 20 Jun 2021)

Start:

He took up swimming at age five. (therepublic.com, 27 Jun 2021)

Reason:

He played basketball, football and baseball growing up, but gave them up at age 12 to focus on swimming. (therepublic.com, 27 Jun 2021)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (usaswimming.org, 26 Jan 2021)

Philosophy:

"I always try to finish as fast I can with everything I have left. I just gotta go." (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 06 Jul 2021)

General Interest

General
SECOND-GENERATION OLYMPIAN
His mother Jennifer Hooker Brinegar competed in swimming at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Michael has been working with her former coach Mark Schubert since his sophomore year in high school. "It's been really great training under him. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be where I'm at today in swimming. It's been really crucial. I train really well under him. He brings the best out in me in workouts and in meets. It's been really important being able to have that." In June 2021 he spoke about his goal of becoming the second person in his family to make an Olympic team. "It would mean a lot. This is something I've been training for for a long time. It's been a lifelong dream, and it would be something great if I could accomplish that." (therepublic.com, 27 Jun 2021; therepublic.com, 13 Jun 2021)

Social Media

https://instagram.com/michaelbrinegar1

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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