Guest Author Brendon Dedekind

2 TIME SOUTH AFRICAN OLYMPIAN

Brendon Dedekind is the first South African male swimmer to win an International Gold Medal. His admirable goals and athletic career to date is outlined below. As you can see, he has a wealth of swimming experience, which he will share from time to time on the About.com Swimming site. If you have a question for Brendon, he can be reached through dedekind@hotmail.com or premier@usaswimmer.com

Goals

• Break the World Record and win the Sydney 2000, Olympic Games
• Be World Record Holder in the 50 yd. 50m LC and 50m SC events

International Swimming Records

• Ranked Top 10 in the World over past 5 years, having ranking as high as Number 1
• Gold Medalist - Goodwill Games, NY, USA 1998
• Gold Medalist - Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Sydney, Australia 1999
• Two Time Gold Medalist - 7^th All Africa Games, Johannesburg, RSA 1999
• Silver Medalist - Commonwealth Games, KL, Malaysia 1998
• Two time Silver medallist - World SC Championships, Athens, Greece, 2000
• Bronze Medalist - World Student Games, Sicily, 1997
• 4^th Place - Pan Pacific Championships, Fukuoka, 1997
• 5^th Place - Olympic Games, Atlanta, 1996
• 6^th Place - World Championships, Perth, January 1998

South African Records

Long Course Meters

• National Champion in the 50m Freestyle (96,97,98,99,00)
• National Champion in the 100m Freestyle (97,98)

Short Course Meters

• National Champion in 50m Freestyle (98, 99)
• National Champion in the 100 Freestyle (98, 99)
• National Champion in the 50 Breaststroke (98, 99)
• Commonwealth, South African and Africa Record Holder

• National Champion in the 100 IM (98)
• South African and Africa Record Holder

• National Champion in the 50 Fly (99)

NCAA Records (1996-1999)

• National Championships

• 1999 Champion - 100 yd. Breaststroke
• 1998 Champion - 50 yd. Freestyle
• Two Time Top 10 Individual Scorer
• Twenty one time All-American

• Atlantic Coast Conference Championships

• 13^th Person in history to win the same event in 4 consecutive years
• Ten time Individual Champion
• Rookie of the year
• Two time Swimmer of the Championships (MVP)
• Three time Swimmer of the year
• Three Individual and four Relay Championship Records

• Florida State University

• Four Time School MVP
• Only Seminole to Final in 3 individual events at one National Competition
• Only Seminole to ever finish in the Top 10 Individual Scorers
• Three Individual Four relay School records
• Four Time Golden Nole Award Winner

Personal Statistics (as of 7/15/2000)

• 50 Freestyle
  22.06 LCM – 5^th fastest human ever over this distance.
  21.62 SCM
  19.17 SCY
  

• 100 Freestyle
  50.50 LCM
  48.12 SCM
  42.96 SCY

• 50 Breaststroke
  27.1 SCM
  
• 100 Breaststroke
  53.16 SCY
  
• 100 Individual Medley
  55.41 SCM

Positions of Leadership/Honor

• South African Flag Bearer – 1997 & 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Champs
• South African Team Captain at the 7^th All Africa Games (600 Team members)
• South African Swimming Team Captain – Commonwealth Games 1998
• South African Swimming Team Captain – Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 1999
• South African Swimming Team Captain – World Short Course Championships 2000

Education

• Electrical Engineer - Florida State University – December 1999
• ODK (National Leadership Honor Society)
• Numerous Honor Roll, Dean’s List student

 

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