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| Full name | Sion D. Brinn | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Jamaica  Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 May 1973 Kingston, Jamaica | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Indian River State College Louisiana State University | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sion D. Brinn (born 8 May 1973; pronounced "Sean") is a Jamaica-born former competition swimmer.
He represented Jamaica and then Great Britain in international competition. He swam for Jamaica at the 1996 Summer Olympics; and for Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He won the 1998 ASA National Championship 100 metres freestyle title. [1]
As of 2016, he is the head coach of the swimming and diving teams at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce, Florida. He was previously the head coach of the swimming and diving team at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
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