FREEMAN James

Date of Birth: 28 Mar 2001

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Olympic ScholarshipYouth Olympian

Place of birth: GABORONE

Birth Country:

Botswana

Place of residence : MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Men's 200m Freestyle
	Men's 400m Freestyle

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 400m Freestyle - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 200m Freestyle - Heat 1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	200Free	400Free	800Free
2018	Buenos Aires, ARG	H (1:54.14)	H (3:57.37)	20th (8:18.64)

World Championships

Year	Location	200Free	400Free
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (DSQ)	H (4:00.48)

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	100Free	200Free	400Free	800Free	1500Free	400IndMed
2019	Budapest, HUN	H (51.88)	H (1:52.37)	H (3:55.07)	22nd (8:11.75)	22nd (15:40.78)	-
2017	Indianapolis, IN, USA	-	H (1:53.60)	H (4:04.49)	21st (8:23.16)	23rd (16:06.66)	H (4:38.70)

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

Nature, travel, camping. (gophersports.com, 02 Feb 2021)

Occupation:

Architecture - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Languages spoken:

University of Minnesota [Minneapolis, MN, USA]

He began swimming at age three. (mmegi.bw, 28 Jul 2017)

He was encouraged by his mother to start swimming and followed his sister into the sport. "My mum actually started coaching me, and I swam with her for three or four years until we eventually moved cities and I joined a club." (gophersports.com, 02 Feb 2021; mmegi.bw, 28 Jul 2017)

Winning a bronze medal at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau, Bahamas, and winning a gold medal at the 2018 African Youth Games in Algiers, Algeria. (gophersports.com, 02 Feb 2021)

US swimmer Michael Phelps. (mmegi.bw, 28 Jul 2017)

His mother. (gophersports.com, 02 Feb 2021)

General Interest

General
STUDYING IN THE UNITED STATES
He began swimming in Botswana before moving to South Africa for high school. He later moved to the United States of America to study at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he had to adapt to swimming in short course events. "Back home, we swim long course metres almost exclusively, so coming here [the United States of America] where everything is short course yards has been a big adjustment for me. It's a much more power-orientated dynamic to the competition here, so I'm adjusting to that for sure." (gophersports.com, 02 Feb 2021)

Social Media

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-freeman-59901420a

Legend

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

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