Kristopher Gilchrist

Kristopher Gilchrist
Personal information
Full name Kristopher Jon Gilchrist
Nickname(s) "Kris"
National team  Great Britain
Born (1983-12-03) 3 December 1983
Edinburgh, Scotland
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 80 kg (180 lb; 13 st)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club City of Edinburgh

Kristopher Jon Gilchrist (born 3 December 1983) is a Scottish competitive swimmer and breaststroker who has represented Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA world championships and European championships, and Scotland in the Commonwealth Games. He is a past world champion in the 200-metre breaststroke.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he competed in the 100- and 200-metre breaststroke events. At the 2008 FINA short-course world championship, he won a gold medal in the men's 200-metre breaststroke.

Personal bests and records held

Event Long course Short course
100 m breaststroke 1:00.57 58.89
200 m breaststroke 2:10.27NR 2:05.84
Key NR:British
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