Andrew Willis

Sport/Event >
Swimming, breaststroke

Date and Place of Birth >
1990, UK

Height > 188cm

Weight > 83kg

Coached by >
Dave McNulty

Date Arrived at Team Bath >
September 2009

Course of Study >
Chemical Engineering

Clubs >

Bracknell & Wokingham

Occupation >

Student

Biography >

Andrew, a University of Bath Chemical Engineering student, produced the performance of his life to take gold at the 2012 British Championships at the London 2012 Aquatics Centre.

He knew he had to swim well to achieve the London 2012 qualifying standard for the 200m breaststroke and finish ahead of British Gas Bath Intensive Training Centre training partners and friends Michael Jamieson and Kris Gilchrist – a race billed as the battle of the Bath breaststrokers.

And he came up trumps clocking a time of 2:09.33, the fastest time of 2012 so far and also breaking his own England record. He dipped more than two seconds inside the qualifiying standard to collect his first British Championship title.

Andrew swam for England at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, finishing just outside the medals in fourth in the 200m breaststroke. He also reached the 200m breaststroke final at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, coming eighth.

Headline Result >

Gold – 200m breaststroke  – British Championships, London, March 2012

Olympic & Paralympics

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