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Full name | Kevin Patrick Callan[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Pat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | [2] Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States | October 6, 1999||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Michigan (undergraduate), University of California, Berkeley (graduate) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Mike Bottom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kevin Patrick Callan[1] (born October 6, 1999)[2] is a retired[3] American competitive swimmer. In 2017, he won a silver medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay at the 2017 World Junior Championships. In 2020, he won silver medals in the 200-meter freestyle and the 400-meter freestyle at the year's U.S. Open Championships. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Callan was part of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay that took fourth place. At the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, he won a bronze medal in the 4×200-yard freestyle relay. He has a younger brother, Christopher Jack Callan, who currently swims at the University of Michigan.
Early life and education
[edit]Callan was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[2][4] He attended Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa, graduating in 2018.[1][2][4] Collegiately, he started competing for the University of Michigan Wolverines in autumn 2018 while pursuing studies for an undergraduate degree in business administration, graduating in 2022.[1][2][5] In the autumn of 2022, he started pursuing a graduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, where he competes as part of the California Golden Bears swim team via a fifth year of NCAA eligibility.[5]
Career
[edit]2016–2021
[edit]2017 World Junior Championships | ||
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4×200 m freestyle relay | 7:10.96 |
In June 2016, at the 2016 US Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, Callan competed in two events. He ranked 67th overall in the 200-meter freestyle and 87th overall in the 400-meter freestyle.[6] He represented the United States at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Indianapolis, winning the silver medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay.[7][8] Callan also placed fourth in the final of the 200-meter freestyle individual event.[7][8][9]
2020 US Olympic Trials
[edit]In November 2020, as part of preparation for the 2020 US Olympic Trials, held the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Callan competed in the virtual format 2020 U.S. Open Swimming Championships, winning the silver medal in the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:47.38 and the bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle with a time of 3:49.34.[10] He placed sixth in the final of the 200-meter freestyle at the 2020 Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, Nebraska with a time of 1:46.49, qualifying him for the 2020 Olympic Games in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay.[11]
2020 Summer Olympics
[edit]Callan qualified for his first Olympic Games in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[4] His sixth place finish at the US Olympic Trials situated him as a relay-only prelims swimmer for the 4×200-meter freestyle relay heading into the 2020 Olympics.[12] In the preliminaries of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, Callan swam alongside Blake Pieroni, Drew Kibler, and Andrew Seliskar and the relay ranked fifth overall and advanced to the final.[13][14][15] In the final, the relay finished fourth overall.[16]
2022
[edit]2022 Big Ten Championships
[edit]On the first day of the 2022 Big Ten Conference Championships in February, Callan achieved a second-place finish in 6:14.59 in the 4×200-yard freestyle relay, splitting a 1:34.03 for the lead-off leg of the relay.[17] In the prelims heats of the 500-yard freestyle the following day, he ranked fourth with a 4:16.63 and advanced to the evening finals.[18] For the final, he swam a 4:16.72 to place sixth.[19] Day three, he ranked fifth in the prelims heats and qualified for the final of the 200 yard freestyle with his time of 1:34.27.[20] He placed sixth in the final, swimming slightly faster than in the prelims heats with a time of 1:34.00.[21] The fourth and final day, he swam a 43.98 in the prelims heats of the 100 yard freestyle, ranking 23rd overall, and in the final he earned two points for the Michigan Wolverines with a time of 44.05 seconds, overall 23rd rank, and seventh-place finish in the c-final.[22]
Five days after the end of the Championships, Callan swam a 3:56.30 and placed fifth in the 400 meter freestyle at the 2022 Pro Swim Series in Westmont, Illinois.[23] In the prelims heats of the 200 meter freestyle the following day, he qualified for the final ranking first with a 1:50.58.[24] He placed fourth in the final with a time of 1:49.83, finishing 1.20 seconds behind fellow 2020 US Olympic team member Jake Mitchell.[25]
2022 NCAA Championships
[edit]Leading up to the 2022 NCAA Division I Championships following the Pro Swim Series in Westmont, Callan announced he was staying at the University of Michigan to compete the following collegiate season as a fifth year, also called a super senior.[26] The first day of competition, he led-off the 4×200 yard freestyle relay in 1:33.10 to help achieve a fourteenth-place finish in 6:14.56.[27] In the morning the following day, he swam a 4:16.44 in the 500 yard freestyle and placed 28th.[27][28] In the prelims heats of the 200 yard freestyle on day three, he placed 22nd with a 1:33.14.[27] For the 4×100 yard freestyle relay on the fourth and final day, he split a 43.02 for the third leg of the relay to help place 22nd in 2:52.27.[27]
2022 International Team Trials
[edit]On the second day of the 2022 US International Team Trials in Greensboro, North Carolina in April, Callan ranked 14th in the prelims heats of the 200 meter freestyle with a time of 1:48.76 and qualified for the evening b-final.[29] He did not swim in the b-final.[30] Two days later, he swam a 3:55.36 for the prelims heats of the 400 meter freestyle, qualifying for the b-final ranking 13th overall.[31] He decided to not swim the event in the finals session.[32]
2022 Swimming World Cup
[edit]As part of his first FINA Swimming World Cup at the 2022 Swimming World Cup held in October in Toronto, Canada, Callan placed ninth in the 400 meter freestyle with a personal best time of 3:47.18.[33] In the 200 meter freestyle two days later, he placed fourteenth in the preliminary heats with a personal best time of 1:45.93, which was 2.35 seconds slower than the fastest swimmer in the preliminary heats Matthew Sates of South Africa.[34] One day prior, he placed twenty-sixth in the 100 meter freestyle with a personal best time of 49.72 seconds, which was 2.76 seconds behind the first-ranked swimmer in the preliminary heats Kyle Chalmers of Australia.[35]
The following World Cup stop, held in his home county at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Callan placed nineteenth in the 400 meter freestyle on day one with a time of 3:49.14.[36] On the third and final day, he swam a 1:46.88 in the 200 meter freestyle and placed twenty-fifth overall.[37]
2023
[edit]For the final dual meet of his fifth year in the NCAA, where he represented the California Golden Bears in a duel meet against the Stanford Cardinal in February 2023, Callan competed in the 200-yard freestyle, finishing as the fastest California Golden Bear swimmer with a time of 1:34.40 to place third overall.[38]
2023 Pac-12 Championships
[edit]Leading off the 4×200 yard freestyle relay on day one of the 2023 Pac-12 Conference Championships, conducted at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Washington, Callan helped win the silver medal with a split time of 1:32.74 that contributed to the final relay time of 6:09.65.[39] In his first individual event of the Championships the following day, the 500 yard freestyle on March 2, he placed fourth with a 4:12.45, finishing within a quarter of a second of the bronze medalist.[40][41] His time ranked fifth all-time for the California Golden Bears men's swim program.[41] In the 200-yard freestyle the following day, he tied for eighth-rank with a time of 1:33.79 in the preliminaries, qualified for a swim-off where he advanced to the b-final after finishing second out of two swimmers in the swim-off, and then placed fifth in the b-final, thirteenth overall, with a time of 1:34.54.[42] On the final day, he placed eighteenth in the preliminaries of the 200 yard butterfly with a time of 1:46.81 before withdrawing from competition in the c-final.[40]
2023 NCAA Championships
[edit]2023 NCAA Championships | ||
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4×200 yd freestyle | 6:06.41 |
Day one of the 2023 NCAA Division I Championships, held following the 2023 Pac-12 Championships in March in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Callan helped win the bronze medal in the 4×200 yard freestyle relay in a final time of 6:06.41, splitting a 1:33.63 for the third leg of the relay.[43][44] The 6:06.41 set a new California Golden Bears men's swim program record in the event.[44] In his two individual events he placed thirty-second in each, finishing in a time of 4:17.54 in the preliminaries of the 500 yard freestyle on day two and in a time of 1:33.59 in the preliminaries of the 200 yard freestyle on day three.[43]
International championships
[edit]Meet | 200 freestyle | 4×200 freestyle relay | 4×100 medley relay |
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WJC 2017 | 4th | ![]() |
DSQ (2nd in heats)[a][b] |
OG 2020 | 4th[a] |
- a Callan swam only in the prelims heats.
- b Callan was not a member of the finals relay that was disqualified.
Personal best times
[edit]Long course meters (50 m pool)
[edit]Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Ref |
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200 m freestyle | 1:46.49 | 2020 US Olympic Trials | Omaha, Nebraska | June 15, 2021 | [11] |
400 m freestyle | 3:49.34 | 2020 U.S. Open Swimming Championships | United States | November 13, 2020 | [10] |
Short course meters (25 m pool)
[edit]Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Ref | |
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100 m freestyle | 49.72 | h | 2022 Swimming World Cup | Toronto, Canada | October 29, 2022 | [35] |
200 m freestyle | 1:45.93 | h | 2022 Swimming World Cup | Toronto, Canada | October 30, 2022 | [34] |
400 m freestyle | 3:47.18 | h | 2022 Swimming World Cup | Toronto, Canada | October 28, 2022 | [33] |
Legend: h – preliminary heat
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External links
[edit]- Patrick Callan at USA Swimming (archived)
- Patrick Callan at World Aquatics
- Patrick Callan at Team USA (archive September 13, 2021)
- Patrick Callan at Olympics.com
- Patrick Callan at Olympedia