Luke Greenbank
Personal information | |
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National team | Great Britain |
Born | Crewe, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom | 17 September 1997
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Backstroke, medley |
Club | Cockermouth Swimming Club, Cockermouth, Cumbria |
Coach | Sean Balmer, Eleanor Walsh |
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Medal record |
Luke Greenbank (born 17 September 1997) is a British swimmer who specialises in backstroke. A medalist in the 200 metre backstroke at both the World and European championships, Greenbank also swam the first leg in the 2019 World and 2020 European Championship gold medal-winning Great Britain teams.
He has won gold medals as part of the 4 × 100 m Men's Medley Relay at the European and World Championships.[1][2]
He won two gold medals in (200 m, 100 m backstroke) and breaking a new Junior World record in 200 m backstroke at the 2015 European Games.
Career[]
In 2014, at the 2014 European Junior Championships, Greenbank won gold medal in 200 m backstroke. He then competed at the 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing taking bronze in 200 m backstroke and gold in 4 × 100 m freestyle (with Duncan Scott, Miles Munro, Martyn Walton).
In June 2015, Greenbank competed at the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku, He won 2 gold medals in (200 m, 100 m backstroke) and breaking a new Junior World record in 200 m backstroke at the 2015 European Games clocking in 1:56.89.[3] He also took silver medals in 4 × 100 m medley (with Duncan Scott, Charlie Attwood, Charlie Attwood) and in 4 × 100 m mixed medley.
On August 25–30, Greenbank won bronze in men's 100 backstroke at the 2015 World Junior Championships held in Singapore.
2018–2019[]
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games held at the Gold Coast, Australia, Greenbank won a silver in the 4 × 100 m medley with Adam Peaty, James Guy and Ben Proud.[4]
Greenbank won his first World Championships medal at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea. He finished third in the men's 200m backstroke, setting a personal best time.[5] He was part of the team in the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay together with Adam Peaty, James Guy and Duncan Scott. He started the race in the backstroke leg, and the team finished in a European record time of three minutes, 28.10 seconds to beat the United States, and won their first gold medal in the event in the World Championships.[6]
Greenbank was one of the 2019 individual world championship medal-winners who were pre-selected for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[7]
2021[]
At the European Championships held in Budapest in May 2021, Greenbank won a silver in 200 metre backstroke,[8] as well as a gold in the men's 4 x 100 m medley relay with Peaty, Guy and Scott.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Luke Greenbank British Swimming Profile". British Swimming. 2 June 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hope, Nick (23 May 2021). "European Aquatics Championships: Adam Peaty helps Britain win men's 4x100m medley gold". BBC Sport.
- ^ "Luke Greenbank Sets World Junior Record in 200 Back in Baku". swimmingworldmagazine.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: Ben Proud claims gold, Caster Semenya breaks record". BBC Sport. 10 April 2018.
- ^ "World Aquatics Championships: Luke Greenbank wins 200m backstroke bronze". BBC Sport. 26 July 2019.
- ^ Field, Pippa (28 July 2019). "Adam Peaty: Winning relay world title with Great Britain 'better than Olympic gold'". The Telegraph.
- ^ Houston, Michael (18 December 2020). "Olympic champion Peaty one of four British swimmers pre-selected for Tokyo 2020". Inside the Games.
- ^ "Luke Greenbank breaks down balanced focus for 100 & 200 backstroke". Swimswam.
External links[]
- Luke Greenbank at British Swimming
- Luke Greenbank at Team GB
- Luke Greenbank at FINA
- Luke Greenbank at Olympedia
- Luke Greenbank at Baku2015.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2019-07-26)
- Luke Greenbank at The-Sports.org
- 1997 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Crewe
- British male swimmers
- Male backstroke swimmers
- Male medley swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2015 European Games
- European Games medalists in swimming
- European Games gold medalists for Great Britain
- European Games silver medalists for Great Britain
- Swimmers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Swimmers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Youth Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming