Brooks Vaughn Curry was born on January 22,2001 and is an American competitive swimmer.
16 Facts About Brooks Curry
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Brooks Curry started competing for the school's swim team, the LSU Tigers, in the fall of 2019.
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At the 2021 Southeastern Conference, SEC, Championships in Columbia, Missouri in February, Brooks Curry was one of three athletes to swim the 50-yard freestyle in less than 19 seconds in the prelims heats, finishing in a personal best time of 18.97 seconds.
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Brooks Curry was the first swimmer from the Louisiana State University athletics program, called the LSU Tigers, to win a gold medal at an Olympic Games in swimming.
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Brooks Curry's win contributed to the LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers winning a total of 23 swimming events in the dual meet.
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The next day of the invitational, Brooks Curry won the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 43.91 seconds.
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Brooks Curry's performances helped his school win each of the three dual meets taking place as part of the two-day Rocky Mountain Invitational where his team competed against the Denver Pioneers, Wyoming Cowboys and Cowgirls, and Air Force Falcons.
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On November 17, the first day of the 2021 Art Adamson Invitational, Brooks Curry lowered his official personal best time for the season in the 50-yard freestyle in the prelims with a swim of 19.14 seconds.
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Brooks Curry won the event in the final with a personal best time of 18.56 seconds and a winning margin of 0.48 seconds ahead of seventh-place finisher Youssef Ramadan.
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Brooks Curry lowered his time to a 1:31.45 in the final to place sixth, finishing 1.17 seconds behind first-place finisher Drew Kibler.
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At the 2022 US International Team Trials in Greensboro, North Carolina in April, Brooks Curry ranked fourth in the preliminary heats of the 100-meter freestyle on day one, qualifying for the final with his time of 48.36 seconds.
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Brooks Curry lowered his personal best time to a 21.84 in the final, placing third.
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Brooks Curry placed fifth in the final with a time of 48.00 seconds, finishing 0.29 seconds behind bronze medalist Joshua Liendo of Canada.
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Brooks Curry finished in a personal best time of 46.32 seconds in the final to win the bronze medal, not far ahead of fourth-place finisher Dylan Carter, who finished in 46.36 seconds, and a slim 0.17 seconds behind silver medalist Thomas Ceccon of Italy.
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The Friday following the World Cup in Toronto, Brooks Curry was back on-campus competing at the LSU Natatorium for a dual meet against the Alabama Crimson Tide, winning the 50-yard freestyle with a 19.60, the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 43.56 seconds and the 200-yard freestyle with a pool record time of 1:35.41 to help achieve a final score less than 20 points behind the Crimson Tide.
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Day two of the 2023 NCAA Division I Championships, held in Minneapolis in March, Brooks Curry placed fourth in the 50-yard freestyle in a time of 18.76 seconds, finishing 0.09 seconds behind bronze medalist Bjorn Seeliger of the California Golden Bears.