23 Facts About Jason Dunford

Martin Dunford is the Chairman of the Tamarind Group, which owns the Carnivore Restaurant.

Jason Dunford's older brother, Robert, is a graduate of the London School of Economics and has several ultra-marathon swimming firsts to his name.

Jason Dunford's younger brother, David, was an international swimmer and represented Kenya from 2005 to 2012.

Jason Dunford started swimming competitively in 1991, at the age of five and it was while at Kenton College, a primary school in Nairobi, under coach Andrew Nderu, that he began to establish himself as a top swimmer in age group for the region.

Jason Dunford competed in various races at the 2004 Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis, and 2005 World Championships in Montreal, but the young swimmer failed to advance past the heats.

O'Sullivan had swum at the University of Georgia, and it was he who encouraged Jason Dunford to look to college in the US to develop his swimming career.

In 2005, after finishing his A-Levels, Jason Dunford moved to Stanford University in the United States where he earned a swimming scholarship.

Jason Dunford missed the 2006 Commonwealth Games due to a conflict with preparations for his first NCAA Championships.

Jason Dunford went on to finish the competition with two gold medals, three silvers and one bronze.

Jason Dunford participated in several races at the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.

Jason Dunford became the first Kenyan swimmer to qualify for the Olympics, gaining qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China in the 100m butterfly as well as the 100m freestyle.

At the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers Jason Dunford won three gold medals, two silver and three bronze.

Jason Dunford participated the 2008 FINA Short Course World Championships in Manchester in April 2008 and reached the 100m butterfly final, finishing 8th.

Jason Dunford did set a new national record of 49.06.

Jason Dunford reached the final and finished fifth by swimming 51.47.

Jason Dunford continued his continental medal hunting at 2010 African Swimming Championships winning two gold medals in butterfly and two freestyle silver medals.

Jason Dunford competed at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi taking the 50 m butterfly gold medal.

Jason Dunford placed 4th in the 100m butterfly and 7th in the 50m butterfly at the Shanghai World Championships.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Jason Dunford competed in the men's 100 m butterfly only, finishing in 12th place.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Jason Dunford reached the final in the 50 and 100 m butterfly.

In 2016, Jason Dunford enrolled at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to pursue his MBA, following earlier attainment of a BA in Human Biology and an MS in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

In October, 2019 Jason Dunford left the BBC to pursue his music career full-time.

Jason Dunford began rapping in September 2018 after an invitation from Romantico to collaborate on the single Mbaya.