Personal information | |
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Full name | James Disney-May |
National team | Great Britain |
Born | Chertsey, England | 4 August 1992
Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) |
Weight | 78 kg (172 lb; 12.3 st) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
College team | Auburn University |
James Disney-May (born 4 August 1992) is an English competitive swimmer.
He has represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games, and competed for England in the Commonwealth Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he swam for the British team in the men's 4×100-metre freestyle relay. [1]
Disney-May attended Millfield School from 2005 to 2010. [2]
In December 2022 Disney-May was sentenced to 21 months in jail with 18 months suspended after pleading guilty to domestic assault against his partner. He was also told to attend counseling sessions, be electronically tracked for four months and had a four year restraining order banning him from contacting his partner and her parents. [3]
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