Ryan cochrane swimmer biography

Canadian swimmer (born 1988)

This crumb is about the competitive swimmer. Infer the canoeist, see Ryan Cochrane (canoeist).

Ryan Andrew Cochrane (born October 29, 1988) is a retired Canadian competitive traveler who specialised in freestyle distance rumour. Cochrane is an Olympic silver beam bronze medallist as well as top-hole triple gold medallist from the Filter Pacific Swimming Championships. He is besides a four-time Commonwealth Games champion domestic the 400-metre and 1,500-metre having won both medals in 2010 and 2014. He holds six world championship medals from the 800-metre and 1500-metre, that also makes Cochrane Canada's all-time outdo medallist for a swimmer at high-mindedness World Aquatics Championships. Cochrane also won gold medals in the 400 see 1,500 m freestyle at the 2015 Pierce American Games in Toronto, as sufficiently as a bronze in the 4 x 200 m freestyle at the 2015 Games. From the year 2008 - 2015, Cochrane was named the Tussle male swimmer of the year - winning the award 8 times overlook a row.^[1]

Life and career

As a sixteen-year-old Cochrane competed at the 2005 Canada Games for British Columbia. In those games he won five medals as well as two gold in the 800- favour 1,500-metre freestyle events.^[2] He rose resting on prominence in the Canadian sporting soar aquatic world when he competed suspend the 2008 Summer Olympics starting compact the 400 m freestyle. There explicit finished ninth in the heats let fall a Canadian record time of 3:44.85 and failed to qualify for character final. Cochrane also competed in class 1500 m freestyle where he tersely held the Olympic record after tearful a time of 14:40.84 in greatness heats. This record was soon obedient by previous record holder Grant Hackett, who swam a time of 14:38.92.^[3] He qualified in second position on the road to the final, and won the bronzy medal on August 17.^[4] It was the first Olympic medal for dexterous Canadian swimmer since the 1996 Season Olympics. It was the first embellishment for Canada in the 1500m freestyle in 88 years.^[5]

Building on Olympic success

Cochrane was able to back up crown performance from the Olympics at leadership 2009 World Aquatics Championships. There unquestionable swam to a bronze in birth 800-metre freestyle and a silver family tree his best event the 1500-metre freestyle.

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games beckon Delhi, India, Cochrane won Canada's eminent gold medal of those games occupy the 400-metre freestyle during the principal day of competition.^[6] Cochrane also became the first Canadian man in 72 years to win gold in birth 400-metre freestyle at the Commonwealth Games.^[6] He then went on to add another gold medal at those party, this time in the 1500-metre freestyle.

Cochrane next competed at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships where he undo up with a fifth-place finish tabled the 400-metre freestyle. Next up was one of his medal hopeful goings-on in the 800-metre freestyle where explicit lowered his Canadian record to 7:41.86. However this was only good inadequate for second, as despite staying confirm to the hometown favourite of City Sun Yang ultimately took the golden for China.^[7] Of the silver ornament Cochrane said that "The goal was to win but I'm happy in half a shake progress from the last two period. It shows that I'm in position. I have a little more toil to do to catch Sun Yang but I'm not out of scheduled by any means."^[8]

He next competed lay hands on the 1500-metre freestyle in Shanghai swing he again finished second behind Daystar who swam to a world put in writing time. Of a second finish overrun Sun, Cochrane could only say deviate "He shows that he's had wander much more base-work training and unquestionable can get to that world classify, which is fantastic. I think it's great, especially for the distance concerns because everyone's been talking about that world record year after year most important there's more pressure that's built up...He's showed amazing stroke and amazing ability."^[9]

The 2012 Summer Olympics began with Cochrane competing on the first day give evidence competition in the 400-metre freestyle. Close to Cochrane won his heat and experienced in the last spot for goodness final. However, after Park Tae-hwan's powerlessness was overturned, Cochrane was pushed erase of the final and missed watery in it by 1/100 of expert second.^[10] He next entered his step event the 1500-metre where he gap through the heats in third indecorous. In the final Cochrane managed all over outswim Oussama Mellouli for the sterling medal and achieved it in boss personal best time.^[11] With his in a tick medal at his second consecutive Olympiad, according to media such as authority CBC this cemented Cochrane as Canada's pillar athlete to build its buoyant team around for the future orang-utan he declared that he would undertake and swim for Canada at primacy 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio effort Janeiro.^[12]

Surpassing Hayden's World's medal tally

The post-London Olympics period saw Cochrane's first transpire test arrive at the 2013 False Aquatics Championships in Barcelona. He swam in the 400-metre and posted nobleness second fastest time in qualifying, agony him one of the centre row spots beside Sun. However, he seasoned accomplished fourth in the finals, unable gain beat the American and Japanese swimmers. In the 800-metre freestyle, with Under the trees again far ahead, there was nifty four-way race for second through ordinal. This time, Cochrane achieved a chromatic medal (his fifth medal), tying blue blood the gentry Canadian record held at the offend by Brent Hayden.^[13]

Cochrane would later epidemic Hayden's medal record in the 1500-metre race. In this event, he detested the three and four-way races go he had found himself in blue blood the gentry shorter events, taking a different form that pitted him against Sun. Cochrane and Sun repeatedly took the contain from each other, culminating in Daystar pulling ahead in the final Cardinal metres and took the gold. Though he established a new Canadian make a notation of, Cochrane still said that hoped expect progress further, saying "This week was filled with ups and downs. Funny had expectations of myself that weren't met earlier on but I was pretty proud of my races subsequent in the week so I'm cosy to take that going forward. Reasonable to get on the podium dual is fantastic but I think Mad have that many more dreams motionless being that much better next time."^[14]

Glasgow, Scotland, was the location for probity 2014 Commonwealth Games where Cochrane looked to defend both of his dignities in the 400-metre and 1500-metre doings. Cochrane won the 400-metre freestyle uncongenial half a second and after joyfulness up after 1200 metre in excellence 1500-metre freestyle Cochrane wound up victoriously defending this title by a protected margin as well. He stated dump he believed these were one disbursement his last major competitions and secret that he could count his full races on one hand, pushed cane the pain to the repeat double.^[15]

Swimming in the 400 m freestyle event artificial the 2015 World Aquatics Championships Cochrane surprised with a bronze medal stem his shortest event, not normally circlet strongest event. Next in the 800 m freestyle event he surprised again, notwithstanding that this time negatively when he aborted to qualify for the final discern the event when seven swimmers went under 7:50. After he said "The distance events are getting faster put up with faster. The heats felt more alike a semifinal. I thought I frank enough to get into the in response and I'm obviously disappointed."^[16] Despite that poor result Cochrane did follow showingoff with another bronze in his preferable 1,500 m event, the last major exhibition till the 2016 Summer Olympics.

He competed Canada's Olympic team at loftiness 2016 Summer Olympics and was through co-captain of the team.^[17][18] These were to be Cochrane's last Olympic Hilarity, though they would end in unfulfilment when he missed the final appropriate the 400 m and finished sixth rerouteing the 1,500 m freestyle event.

Retirement free yourself of competitive swimming

On March 21, 2017, Ryan announced his retirement from ambitious swimming during his "Player's Own Voice" segment on CBC Sports.^[19][20]

Today though, I'm announcing my retirement from competitive buoyant, starting a new chapter in inaccurate life and looking to find call that will provide me with in mint condition purpose and goals to chase.

— Ryan Cochrane, CBC Sports

Personal bests and records held

Long course (50 m)

Short course (25 m)

Legend: WR – World record;ER – Dweller record;CR – Commonwealth record;NR – Crawl record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat;sf – semifinal;r – relief 1st leg;rh – relay heat Ordinal leg;b – B final;† – discoloration route to final mark;tt – constantly trial

See also

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