Connor Lee Jaeger ( born Connor Lee Jaeger ; born April 30, 1991 , Hackensack , New Jersey , USA ) is an American swimmer, winner of the 2013 and 2015 world championships. It specializes in freestyle swimming at distances of 400, 800 and 1500 meters.
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He made his debut in the national team at the 2012 Olympics and participated in the final of the 1,500 meter freestyle race and finished it sixth.
The following year, he won the bronze medal in the 400 meter freestyle and took part in competitions at the distances of 800 and 1500 meters freestyle [1] .
At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, he won silver at a distance of 1,500 meters with a score of 14: 41.20, losing a little more than 1.5 seconds to the champion Gregorio Paltrinieri from Italy.
Trained at the University of Michigan [2] .
According to information obtained by the hacker group Fancy Bear [3] during the hacking site of the World Anti-Doping Agency, "used illegal drugs for therapeutic purposes."
Notes
- ↑ USA Swimming - National Team Bios Archived on April 14, 2015.
- ↑ Connor Jaeger Bio - MGOBLUE.COM - University of Michigan Official Athletic Site
- ↑ Fancy Bears' - Hack Team (inaccessible link) . fancybear.net. Date of treatment September 19, 2016. Archived on September 18, 2016.
Links
- Connor Yeager - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com