Caspar Corbeau

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Caspar Corbeau
Personal information
National teamNetherlands
Born (2001-04-03) 3 April 2001 (age 24)
Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
Height6 ft 7 in (201 cm) [1]
Weight210 lb (95 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
College team Texas Longhorns
Coach Eddie Reese
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing the Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games 001
World Championships (LC) 021
European Youth Olympic Festival 110
European Junior Championships 022
Total154
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Paris 200 m breaststroke
World Championships (LC)
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Doha 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2024 Doha 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Singapore 200 m breaststroke
European Youth Olympic Festival
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Győr 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2017 Győr100 m breaststroke
European Junior Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Kazan 100 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2019 Kazan200 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Helsinki 200 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2019 Kazan50 m breaststroke

Caspar Corbeau (born 3 April 2001) is a Dutch-American swimmer, representing the Netherlands at international competitions. He is a 2024 Olympics bronze medalist in the men's 200 meter breaststroke.

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Early life

Corbeau was born in Santa Cruz, California, and raised in the Portland, Oregon area. His father, Jim Corbeau, and his mother, Shannon Hocom Corbeau, were competitive swimmers for Aptos High School in Santa Cruz, and later UC Berkeley and UCLA swim teams, respectively. [2] [3] [4] Their three children, Caspar, Angus [5] and Nicolien, [6] are also competitive swimmers. [2]

Corbeau started swimming at the age of eight. [3] From 2010 to 2019 he swam for the Tualatin Hills Swim Club in Tualatin, Oregon, [7] where he was coached by Christopher Pfaffenroth. [2] Corbeau attended Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon and graduated in 2019. [3] [7]

Career

Collegiate

From 2019 to 2023, Corbeau attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in kinesiology. [8] At Texas, he was coached by Hall of Famer Eddie Reese, and was a member of the 2021 NCAA National Championship and 2022 NCAA National Runner-up teams. [9] Corbeau was an 22-time All-American, [10] 16-time Big 12 Champion (Seven-time Individual Champion), 2020 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year; and College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-American First Team for all four years at Texas. [9]

In 2024, it was announced that Corbeau will join the Indiana University swim team as a mid-year graduate student in Spring 2025. [10]

Olympic Games

He competed at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan in the 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke. [8] [10]

At the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, Corbeau competed in the 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke. He finished 8th in the 100 meter distance. [11] In the 200 meter race, Corbeau finished third with a time of 2:07.90, and earned a bronze medal. [12] [13] [10]

European Championships

At the 2021 European Championships (long course) in Budapest, Hungary he competed in the 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke, finishing 7th in the 200 meter distance. [14]

At the 2023 European Championships (short course) in Otopeni, Romania he competed in the 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke, finishing 3rd in the 100 meter distance [15] and 1st in the 200 meter distance. [16]

World Championships

At the 2022 World Championships (long course) in Budapest, Hungary he competed in the 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke, finishing 7th in the 200 meter distance. [17]

At the 2023 World Championships (long course) in Fukuoka, Japan he competed in the 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke, finishing 5th in the 200 meter distance. [18]

At the 2024 World Championships (long course) in Doha, Corbeau competed in the 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke. He won a silver medal in the 200 meter race, [10] and finished seventh in the 100 meter distance. [19] [20]

At the 2025 World Championships (long course) in Singapore, Corbeau competed in the 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke. He won a bronze medal in the 200 meter race [21] , and finished fourth in the 100 meter distance [22] .

World Record

At the third stop of the 2025 World Aquatics World Cup series, held in Toronto, Canada in October 2025, he became the first man to break the 2:00 barrier in the 200 meter breaststroke, swimming a 1:59.52. [23]

Personal bests

As of 25 November 2025
Long Course Meters
EventTimeMeetDateNote(s)
50 m breaststroke26.942025 World Championships29 July 2025
100 m breaststroke59.032025 World Championships28 July 2025
200 m breaststroke2:07.732025 World Championships1 August 2025
Short Course Meters
EventTimeMeetDateNote(s)
50 m breaststroke25.52World Cup - Westmont19 October 2025
100 m breaststroke55.55World Cup - Toronto23 October 2025
200 m breaststroke1:59.52World Cup - Toronto26 October 2025
Short Course Yards
EventTimeMeetDateNote(s)
100 y breaststroke50.492022 NCAA Championships25 March 2022
200 y breaststroke1:49.15 2023 NCAA Championships 25 March 2023
200 y IM1:40.98 2022 NCAA Championships 24 March 2022

References

  1. ↑ "Caspar Corbeau". texassports.com. Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Gumz, Jondi (August 17, 2024). SWIMMER CASPAR CORBEAU WINS OLYMPIC MEDAL. TPG Online Daily.
  3. 1 2 3 Miller, Mark (June 15, 2021). Sunset High School alum Caspar Corbeau to swim at Olympics. Beaverton Valley Times.
  4. ↑ Jim Corbeau, MBA, CFP®, CDFA. Springwater Wealth Management.
  5. ↑ Angus Corbeau. SMU Swimming and Diving.
  6. ↑ Nicolien Corbeau. Florida Gulf Coast University Athletics.
  7. 1 2 Haskins, Devon (June 11, 2021). Portland swimmer makes Dutch Olympic team. Caspar Corbeau, who holds dual citizenship with USA and The Netherlands, will swim the 100m and 200m breast stroke in Tokyo for The Netherlands. KGW8.
  8. 1 2 "Nederlandse Amerikaan Caspar Corbeau droomt van Spelen: 'Tokio is nog niet uit mijn hoofd'". Algemeen Dagblad . Archived from the original on 19 May 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  9. 1 2 Casper Corbeau. The University of Texas at Austin Athletics.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 Indiana University (December 19, 2024). Olympic Medalist Corbeau Joins ‘Breaststroke U’.
  11. ↑ "Competition Results | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  12. ↑ "Competition Results | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  13. ↑ Men's Swimming's Corbeau earns bronze in 200 breast at Paris Olympics. The University of Texas at Austin Athletics.
  14. ↑ "European Championships 2020 | Budapest". budapest2020.microplustiming.com. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  15. ↑ "European Short Course Swimming Championships 2023 Results". heraklion23.gr. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  16. ↑ "European Short Course Swimming Championships 2023 Results". heraklion23.gr. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  17. ↑ "Competition Results | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  18. ↑ "Competition Results | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  19. ↑ "Competition Results | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  20. ↑ "Competition Results | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  21. ↑ "Competition Results | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  22. ↑ "Competition Results | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  23. ↑ Editor-in-Chief, John Lohn- (25 October 2025). "Caspar Corbeau Blazes World Record in 200 Breaststroke with Sub-2:00 Effort; Shin Ohashi Sets WJR". Swimming World. Retrieved 25 November 2025.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
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