28 Facts About Kieran Smith

Kieran Smith is the Americas record holder in the long course 400-meter freestyle and the American record holder in the 500-yard freestyle.

Kieran Smith attends the University of Florida where he competes collegiately as part of the Florida Gators and set the American and NCAA records in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:06.32 at the 2020 SEC Championships.

In 2016 and 2017 Kieran Smith was named Connecticut High School Coaches Association "Swimmer of the Year".

Kieran Smith placed fourth in the 400-meter individual medley and eleventh in the 200-meter backstroke at the Championships.

At the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships in Hangzhou, China in December 2018, Kieran Smith placed 13th in the prelims heats of the 400-meter individual medley with a 4:08.52.

At the 2021 US Open Water Championships, Kieran Smith placed seventh in the 5-kilometer open water swim with a time of 1 hour and 13 seconds, and placed tenth in the 10-kilometer open water swim in 2 hours, 12 minutes, and 32 seconds.

Kieran Smith posted new lifetime bests of 3:44.86 in the 400-meter freestyle and 1:45.29 in the 200-meter freestyle.

Kieran Smith was the first swimmer at the 2020 US Olympic Trials to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in more than one individual event.

On July 25,2021, Kieran Smith won a bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle, finishing in 3:43.94.

Day one of the 2021 Georgia Tech Fall Invitational, November 18, Kieran Smith won a total of four events in one night for the Florida Gators, which included the 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard individual medley, 4x50 yard freestyle relay, and 4x100 yard medley relay.

Later in the day, in the finals session, Kieran Smith placed second in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 3:46.95, fifth in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 46.80 seconds, and first in the 4x200 yard freestyle relay in 6:14.99 where he split a 1:32.66 for the lead-off leg of the relay.

Kieran Smith's swims earned him the Southeastern Conference, SEC, honor of "Men's Swimmer of the Week" for the sixth week of the collegiate season.

Kieran Smith entered to compete in the 200-meter individual medley, 200-meter freestyle, 400-meter individual medley, and 400-meter freestyle at the 2021 World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in December, and the announcement of the United States team, including Kieran Smith, for the Championships was the number two item on the Swimming World honor of "The Week That Was" for the week of November 1,2021.

Two weeks before the start of competition, Kieran Smith signed a professional sponsorship with Speedo.

Later in the day, during the finals session, Kieran Smith placed fifth in the 400-meter freestyle, swimming a 3:38.77 to finish less than a second behind fourth-place finisher Marco De Tullio of Italy.

Kieran Smith placed fifth in the final with a personal best time of 4:03.29.

Kieran Smith won the final as well, placing first with a time of 3:39.33.

Kieran Smith won the final with a 1:39.51, finishing 0.07 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.

Kieran Smith won a total of two individual titles and four relay titles, earned 92 individual points, and helped the Florida Gators achieve a Southeastern Conference Championships victory that was 476 points ahead of the second-place teams, which marked the largest winning margin in the history of the Southeastern Conference Championships.

Kieran Smith started the fifth and final day with the prelims heats of the 200-meter individual medley in the morning, qualifying for the final ranking seventh with a 1:59.60.

Kieran Smith placed sixth in the final with a time of 1:45.16.

On October 21, at the first stop of his first FINA Swimming World Cup, 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup stop in Berlin, Germany, Kieran Smith won a silver medal in his first event, the 400-meter freestyle, with a personal best time of 3:37.27, which was less than one second slower than gold medalist Matthew Sates of South Africa.

Kieran Smith won his second medal in the 200-meter freestyle, finishing third in a time of 1:42.30 to win the bronze medal behind gold medalist Matthew Sates and silver medalist Kyle Chalmers of Australia.

Kieran Smith won his second medal on day three of three in Toronto, finishing behind fellow Americans Brooks Curry and Trenton Julian in the 200-meter freestyle to win the bronze medal with a time of 1:42.45.

Day one in Indianapolis for the third and final stop, Kieran Smith won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle with a new US Open record and personal best time of 3:35.99, which was 1.51 seconds faster than silver medalist Danas Rapsys of Lithuania.

In mid-October, Kieran Smith was named to the USA Swimming roster for the 2022 World Short Course Championships, to be contested in December in Melbourne, Australia, in two individual events, the 200-meter freestyle and 400-meter freestyle.

Kieran Smith lowered his time to a 45.77 in the final, helping win the bronze medal with a time of 3:05.09.

Kieran Smith's title was the second for the United States in the event, after Chad Carvin at the 2000 edition of the Championships.