Jason Edward Dunford, OGW, also known as Samaki Mkuu, is a Kenyan Olympic swimmer, media personality, rapper and entrepreneur. During his swimming career he was predominantly a butterfly and freestyle sprinter and won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games, Universiade, All-Africa Games and African Championships, and reached finals at Olympics, World Championships and Short Course World Championships. He also held African, Universiade and Olympic records. He is a broadcast journalist with the BBC, raps under the stage name Samaki Mkuu, was the founder and host of J-Talk Live, and is a co-founder and adviser to software company, Safi Analytics.
Swimming is an individual or team sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water. Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take part in either a freestyle or medley relay. A medley relay consists of four swimmers who will each swim a different stroke, ordered as backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. Swimming each stroke requires a set of specific techniques; in competition, there are distinct regulations concerning the acceptable form for each individual stroke. There are also regulations on what types of swimsuits, caps, jewelry and injury tape that are allowed at competitions. Although it is possible for competitive swimmers to incur several injuries from the sport, such as tendinitis in the shoulders or knees, there are also multiple health benefits associated with the sport.
Swimming has been part of African Games since its inaugural edition in 1965 and has continued to feature prominently at the competition in each of its subsequent editions.
The swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 13 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. The women's open-water marathon was held on August 15, and the men's open water race on August 16 in Fort Copacabana.
The men's 400 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 6th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 7th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 6th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 8th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 6th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The women's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 7th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 6th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The women's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 8th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 6th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The women's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 10th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 6th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 10th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 10th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.
The Women's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 21 August 2019.
The Men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 21 August 2019.
The Men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 22 August 2019.
