Drew Kibler is an Olympic silver medalist in the 4x200 meter freestyle relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
18 Facts About Drew Kibler
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Drew Kibler won the bronze medal in the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:31.76, placed ninth in the 50 yard freestyle with a b-final-winning time of 19.15 seconds, and placed sixteenth overall in the 100 yard freestyle with a time of 42.63 seconds in the b-final.
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At the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Drew Kibler won three medals.
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Drew Kibler placed third in the final with a time of 19.48 seconds, finishing 0.31 seconds after the first-place finisher.
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Drew Kibler won the final with a 1:32.64, finishing 0.28 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.
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Drew Kibler's win made him the first swimmer from Carmel to win an individual NCAA title in swimming.
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Less than a week after the 2022 NCAA Championships, Drew Kibler started off with a 1:49.67 in the prelims heats of the 200 meter freestyle on day two of the 2022 Pro Swim Series held in San Antonio, Texas at Northside Swim Center, qualifying for the final ranking second.
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Drew Kibler won the 200 meter freestyle in the final with a time of 1:47.61.
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Drew Kibler followed his prelims swim up with a time of 52.39 seconds in the final, placing seventh overall after being bumped up to the a-final.
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Drew Kibler started his competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships with his individual event, the 200 meter freestyle, swimming a 1:46.13 in the preliminaries to qualify for the semifinals ranking fifth.
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Drew Kibler slowed it down to a 21.74 in the final, placing eighth.
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Drew Kibler lowered his personal best time by two-hundredths of a second in the final, placing seventh with a 1:43.76.
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At his second-ever Swimming World Cup stop, the one held in November 2022 in Indianapolis, Drew Kibler started off with a personal best time of 3:43.68 in the preliminary heats of the 400 meter freestyle, qualifying for the final ranking fourth.
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Drew Kibler lowered his personal best time by 3.60 seconds in the final, placing fourth with a 3:40.08.
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Drew Kibler trimmed another two-hundredths of a second off his personal best time in the final, winning his first medal of the circuit, a bronze medal, with a time of 46.82 seconds that was 1.27 seconds behind gold medalist Kyle Chalmers of Australia and 0.55 seconds behind silver medalist Thomas Ceccon of Italy.
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Drew Kibler finished third in the final, less than two-tenths of a second behind gold medalist and fellow American Kieran Smith, winning the bronze medal with a personal best time of 1:41.93.
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Drew Kibler won his first medal at a World Short Course Championships in the final, leading-off the relay with a 46.84 to help win the bronze medal in 3:05.09.
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In March 2023, at the long course meters Speedo Sections in Indianapolis, Drew Kibler won the 50 meter freestyle on day one with a personal best time of 22.23 seconds, the 200 meter freestyle on day two with a 1:45.82, the 400 meter freestyle on day three with a personal best time of 3:52.25, and the 100 meter freestyle on day four with a 48.89.