Archie Goodburn
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| Born | 26 June 2001 Edinburgh, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University team | University of Edinburgh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Archie Goodburn (born 26 June 2001) is a swimmer from Scotland, who is a British Champion and competed in the Commonwealth Games.[1][2][3]
Career
[edit]Goodburn made his Commonwealth Games debut in the men's 50-metre breaststroke.[4]
Goodburn won a bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke at the 2019 World Junior Swimming Championships and won the gold medal at the 2023 British Swimming Championships, in the 50 metres breaststroke.[5]
He won Bronze at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in December 2023 as part of the Great Britain 4x50m Medley Relay Team. At the same meet he also broke the Scottish Record on the 50m Breaststroke in a time of 26.26 seconds.
Personal life
[edit]In June 2024 Goodburn announced that he had been diagnosed with three oligodendrogliomas, a form of cancer that can affect the brain and spinal cord, and that he would be undergoing courses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy to address this issue.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Archie Goodburn". World Aquatics. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "Archie Goodburn". Swim Swam. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "Archie Goodburn". Birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Limited. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "Archie Goodburn / SWIMMING". Scottish Swimming. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "British Swimming Championships 2023". British Swimming. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "Swimmer Goodburn diagnosed with inoperable brain tumours". BBC News. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
External links
[edit]- Archie Goodburn at World Aquatics
- Archie Goodburn at Swimrankings.net
- Archie Goodburn at Team Scotland
- Archie Goodburn at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
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