Kieran Smith

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Kieran Smith
Personal information
National team United States
Born (2000-05-20) May 20, 2000 (age 21)
Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
Height1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[1]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, individual medley
ClubRidgefield Aquatic Club[2]
College teamUniversity of Florida[3]
CoachAnthony Nesty

Kieran Smith is an American swimmer specializing in freestyle and individual medley events. He is the American record and US Open record holder in the 500 yard freestyle. At the 2021 World Short Course Championships, Smith won a gold medal and set an American record as part of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze Olympic medal in the 400 meter freestyle, placing sixth in the 200 meter freestyle and fourth in the 4×200 meter freestyle relay. At the 2017 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, he won the silver medal in the 200 meter individual medley. He competes collegiately for the Florida Gators.

Early life and education[]

Smith attended and graduated from Ridgefield High School in 2018.[4] Smith attends the University of Florida where he competes collegiately as part of the Florida Gators and set the American and NCAA records in the 500 yard freestyle with a time of 4:06.32 at the 2020 SEC Championships.[5]

Career[]

Early career[]

In 2016 and 2017 Smith was named Connecticut High School Coaches Association "Swimmer of the Year".[6] In 2017, he qualified for the US National Junior Team and earned a silver medal at the 2017 Junior World Championships in the 200 meter individual medley.[7] He also placed fourth in the 400 meter individual medley and eleventh in the 200 meter backstroke at the Championships.[8]

At the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships in Hangzhou, China in December 2018, Smith placed 13th in the prelims heats of the 400 meter individual medley with a 4:08.52.[9] In the prelims heats of the 4×200 metre freestyle relay, Smith led-off the relay consisting of him, Jack Conger, Jacob Pebley, and Zach Harting with a 1:43.30 to help qualify the relay to the final ranking second.[10] For the finals relay, all prelims relay members except for Zach Harting were substituted out and the relay placed fourth overall.[11]

During his sophomore year competing collegiately for the Florida Gators, Smith set the 500 yard freestyle American, NCAA, SEC, and Florida records with a 4:06.32 at the 2020 Southeastern Conference Championships in February 2020, which broke the record of 4:08.19 set by Townley Haas in 2019.[12][13] For the 2019–2020 season, his sophomore year, Smith received the "Male Swimmer of the Year" award from the Southeastern Conference.[14]

2021[]

During his junior year with the Florida Gators, Smith tied his American record in the 500 yard freestyle, swimming a 4:06.32 at the 2021 Southeastern Conference Championships.[15][16] His performances at the 2020 and 2021 Southeastern Conference Championships earned him the "Swimmer of the Meet" award at each Championships.[17]

At the 2021 US Open Water Championships, Smith placed seventh in the 5 kilometer open water swim with a time of 1 hour and 13 seconds, and placed tenth in the 10 kilometer open water swim in 2 hours, 12 minutes, and 32 seconds.[18][19]

2020 US Olympic Trials[]

Smith qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games in the 400 meter freestyle and the 200 meter freestyle, winning both events at the 2020 USA Swimming Olympic Trials.[20][21][22] In the prelims, semifinals, final structure of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Smith was the only male swimmer to meet the Olympic qualifying standard time in the 400 meter freestyle.[23] He posted new lifetime bests of 3:44.86 in the 400 meter freestyle and 1:45.29 in the 200 meter freestyle.[24][25][26] Smith was the first swimmer at the 2020 US Olympic Trials to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in more than one individual event.[27] In the 200 meter individual medley, Smith swam a personal best time of 1:57.23 and finished third overall, not making the US Olympic Team in the event as only the top two event finishers, Michael Andrew and Chase Kalisz, qualified for the team.[28] For the 100 meter freestyle, Smith swam a 49.40 and placed 20th overall in the prelims heats, not advancing to the semifinals of the event.[29]

2020 Summer Olympics[]

2020 Summer Olympics
Bronze medal – third place 400 m freestyle 3:43.94

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic were Smith's first Olympic Games.[30] On July 25, 2021, Smith won a bronze medal in the 400 meter freestyle, finishing in 3:43.94.[31][32] Smith's individual bronze medal was his first Olympic medal in any, individual or relay, event and the first Olympic medal for the United States in the 400 meter freestyle since 2012.[6] In the 200 meter freestyle, Smith was the only American to make it to the final of the event on July 27, placing sixth with a time of 1:45.12.[6][33] The next day, July 28, Smith split the fastest lead-off leg of the 4×200 meter freestyle relay across all finals relay teams with a personal best time of 1:44.74, which was approximately one second faster than the next-fastest lead-off swimmer and helped the United States relay consisting of him, Drew Kibler, Zach Apple, and Townley Haas place fourth with a time of 7:02.43.[34] A crowd of about 70 people welcomed Smith back to his hometown of Ridgefield, Connecticut following the Olympic Games in a meet and greet format after his parents had a car pick him up from the airport so they could surprise him when he arrived at the house.[35] Smith's swims for 2021, up to the end of August, were fast enough for him to earn spots in the 200 meter freestyle, 400 meter freestyle, and 200 meter individual medley on the 2021–2022 U.S. National Team.[36][37]

2021–2022 Collegiate season beginnings[]

Day one of the 2021 Georgia Tech Fall Invitational, November 18, Smith won a total of four events in one night for the Florida Gators, which included the 500 yard freestyle, 200 yard individual medley, 4x50 yard freestyle relay, and 4x100 yard medley relay.[38][39] The next morning, November 19, Smith raced in three individual events, swimming a 3:49.43 in the 400 yard individual medley, 47.27 in the 100 yard butterfly, and a 46.95 in the 100 yard backstroke.[40] Later in the day, in the finals session, Smith placed second in the 400 yard individual medley with a time of 3:46.95, fifth in the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 46.80 seconds, and first in the 4x200 yard freestyle relay in 6:14.99 where he split a 1:32.66 for the lead-off leg of the relay.[41] Smith's swims earned him the Southeastern Conference, SEC, honor of "Men's Swimmer of the Week" for the sixth week of the collegiate season.[42]

2021 World Short Course Championships[]

2021 World Championships
Gold medal – first place 4×200 m freestyle 6:47.00 (NR)

Smith entered to compete in the 200 meter individual medley, 200 meter freestyle, 400 meter individual medley, and 400 meter freestyle at the 2021 World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in December, and the announcement of the United States team, including Smith, for the Championships was the number two item on the Swimming World honor of "The Week That Was" for the week of November 1, 2021.[43][44] Two weeks before the start of competition, Smith signed a professional sponsorship with Speedo.[45]

On the first day of competition, December 16, Smith ranked second in the prelims heats of the 400 meter freestyle with a time of 3:38.61, qualifying for the final later the same day.[46][47] In the same prelims session, Smith qualified for the final of the 200 metre individual medley with a 1:54.01, ranking eighth overall.[47][48] Later in the day, during the finals session, Smith placed fifth in the 400 meter freestyle, swimming a 3:38.77 to finish less than a second behind fourth-place finisher Marco De Tullio of Italy.[49] For his second final of the evening, Smith placed sixth in the 200 meter individual medley with a personal best time of 1:53.76.[50] Day two, Smith swum a personal best time of 1:42.64 in the 200 meter freestyle to win his heat in the prelims and advance to the final ranking fourth.[51] In the final, Smith placed fifth with a time of 1:42.29, finishing two-hundredths of a second behind fourth-place-finisher Duncan Scott of Great Britain.[52]

Day four, Smith split a 21.20 for the third leg of the 4×50 meter freestyle relay, helping qualify the relay for the final ranking third.[53] In the final, he anchored the relay to a fourth-place finish in 1:23.81, splitting a 21.30 for his 50 meter portion of the relay.[54][55] Later in the same finals session, Smith led-off the 4×200 metre freestyle relay in 1:41.79, helping win the gold medal and set a new American record in the event at 6:47.00.[56][57] In the prelims heats of the 400 meter individual medley, Smith qualified for the final ranking fifth with a time of 4:04.82, which was over two seconds slower than fellow American and final qualifier Carson Foster.[58] Smith placed fifth in the final with a personal best time of 4:03.29.[59]

2022[]

2022 Southeastern Conference Championships[]

Smith continued his success in the 4×200 freestyle relay event, this time in yards, at the 2022 Southeastern Conference Championships in February 2022, splitting a 1:30.42 on the lead-off leg of the relay to help win in 6:08.00.[60][61] The final relay time of 6:08.00 set a new Southeastern Conference record in the event, lowering the former record down 1.14 seconds from a 6:09.14, and Smith's split for the new record time was 1.22 seconds faster than his split of 1:31.64 for the former record.[60][62] The next morning, he ranked fifth in the prelims heats of the 500 yard freestyle with a 4:14.51 and qualified for the final later in the day.[63] In the evening, Smith split a 18.77 on the 4×50 yard freestyle relay in the final, helping achieve a win in a new meet record time of 1:15.18.[64] Later the same session, he placed second behind Matthew Sates in the final of the 500 yard freestyle with a 4:10.15.[65]

On the third day, Smith started off competition in the morning where he qualified for the final ranking first in the 400 yard individual medley with a 3:43.26.[66] He won the final as well, placing first with a time of 3:39.33.[67] In the evening of the fourth day, he anchored the 4×100 yard medley relay in 41.70 seconds to help achieve a win in 3:02.61.[68] The fifth and final day, he swam a 1:40.90 in the prelims heats of the 200 yard backstroke to qualify for the final ranking fourth.[69] He won the final with a 1:39.51, finishing 0.07 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.[70] For his final event, Smith anchored the 4×100 yard freestyle relay to a first-place victory in 2:46.91, splitting a time of 41.31 seconds.[71] Smith won a total of two individual titles and four relay titles, earned 92 individual points, and helped the Florida Gators achieve a Southeastern Conference Championships victory that was 476 points ahead of the second-place teams, which marked the largest winning margin in the history of the Southeastern Conference Championships.[72]

International championships[]

Meet 200 freestyle 400 freestyle 200 backstroke 200 individual medley 400 individual medley 4×50 freestyle 4×200 freestyle
WJC 2017 11th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4th N/A
SCW 2018 13th 4th[a]
OG 2020 6th 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) N/A 4th
SCW 2021 5th 5th 6th 5th 4th 1st place, gold medalist(s)
a Smith swam only in the prelims heats.

Personal best times[]

Long course meters (50 m pool)[]

As of November 19, 2021
Event Time Meet Location Date Age
100 m freestyle 49.11 2019 USA Swimming Championships Stanford, California July 31, 2019 19
200 m freestyle 1:44.74 r 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan July 28, 2021 21
400 m freestyle 3:43.94 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan July 25, 2021 21
800 m freestyle 7:59.27 2021 TYR Pro Swim Series - San Antonio San Antonio, Texas January 14, 2021 20
200 m individual medley 1:57.23 2020 US Olympic Trials Omaha, Nebraska June 18, 2021 21
400 m individual medley 4:15.17 2019 USA Swimming Championships Stanford, California August 2, 2019 19

Legend: r — relay 1st leg

Short course meters (25 m pool)[]

As of December 20, 2021
Event Time Meet Location Date Age
200 m freestyle 1:41.79 r 2021 World Short Course Championships Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates December 19, 2021 21
400 m freestyle 3:38.61 h 2021 World Short Course Championships Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates December 16, 2021 21
200 m individual medley 1:53.76 2021 World Short Course Championships Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates December 16, 2021 21
400 m individual medley 4:03.29 2021 World Short Course Championships Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates December 20, 2021 21

Legend: h — heat; r — relay 1st leg

National records[]

Short course meters (25 m pool)[]

No. Event Time Meet Date Location Type Status Ref
1 4×200 m freestyle 6:47.00 2021 World Short Course Championships December 19, 2021 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates NR Current [57]
Legend: NRAmerican record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Short course yards (25 yd pool)[]

No. Event Time Meet Date Location Type Status Ref
1 500 yd freestyle 4:06.32 2020 Southeastern Conference Championships February 19, 2020 Auburn, Alabama NR, US Current [12][13]
2 500 yd freestyle (2) 4:06.32 = 2021 Southeastern Conference Championships February 24, 2021 Columbia, Missouri NR, US Current [15][16]
Legend: NRAmerican record; USU.S. Open record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Awards and honors[]

  • Swimming World, NCAA Swim of the Year (male): 2021[73]
  • Swimming World, The Week That Was: November 1, 2021 (#2)[44]
  • SwimSwam, Top 100 (Men's): 2022 (#24)[74]
  • Southeastern Conference (SEC), Swimmer of the Championships (male): 2020,[17] 2021[17]
  • Southeastern Conference (SEC), Swimmer of the Year (male): 2019–2020[14]
  • Southeastern Conference (SEC), Swimmer of the Week (male): November 23, 2021,[42] January 25, 2022[75]
  • Connecticut High School Coaches Association (CHSCA), Swimmer of the Year: 2016,[6] 2017[6]

See also[]

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