Morgan Knabe

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Morgan Knabe
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Full nameMorgan Knabe
National teamFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Born (1981-05-20) May 20, 1981 (age 43)
Calgary, Alberta
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
College team University of Calgary
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Canada
World Championships (SC)
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1999 Hong Kong 100 m breaststroke
Pan Pacific Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1999 Sydney 4x100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1997 Fukuoka 4x100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1999 Sydney 100 m breaststroke
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2002 Manchester [1] 100 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2002 Manchester 4 x 100 m medley
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1999 Winnipeg 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1999 Winnipeg 100 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1999 Winnipeg 4x100 m medley

Morgan Knabe (born May 20, 1981) is a former breaststroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 (2000 - Sydney, AUS and 2004 - Athens, GR). His best Olympic results were a sixth place in the 100-metre breaststroke, and with the men's 4x100-metre medley relay in Sydney, Australia. [2]

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Knabe is known to be outspoken, being forced to apologize after "accusing Olympic gold medallist Domenico Fioravanti of using drugs and saying he wanted to punch the Italian swimmer in the face". [3] [4]

After retiring from competitive swimming, Knabe went into coaching. He is currently based in Brisbane as the head coach of Lawnton Swim Club.

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References

  1. "BBC Sport Commonwealth Games 2002 Statistics". BBC News. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
  2. Profile at Sports Reference
  3. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/knabe-apologizes-for-accusing-italian-swimmer-of-doping-1.265625 [ bare URL ]
  4. "Poor Kick Sends Canada's Knabe Home Early". 29 August 2002.