An Olympic Silver Medalist In the Pool, Katie Grimes Finishes Top 15 In The Marathon Swim
Marathon swimmers face all sorts of conditions. In Paris, the open-water swimmers faced a mean current.
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Athlete Bio#
Height
5'11"
Age
33
Hometown
Las Vegas, NV
Education
Palo Verde High School (Las Vegas, Nev.) ‘10 Indiana University ‘15, Business Management
Quick Facts
- Son of Debbie Miller
- Has one younger sister, Catie
- Engaged to Ali DeWitt
- Diagnosed with Pectus Excavatum and began swimming at age 8 to help monitor his heart and breathing
- Has two teacup Pomeranians
- Took dance lessons for years, including the study of modern, contemporary and ballet, with ballet being his favorite
- Trained to be a balloonist in high school and can still create some cool objects out of balloons
- Very skilled at riding a rip stick
- Skateboarded a lot growing up and still loves it despite not being able to partake in it due to swimming
- Self-proclaimed movie buff and his favorite show about movies is Collider’s Movie Talk and he is a big John Campea fan
- Watches all of the Oscar-nominated films annually before the show and tries to predict the winners, entering contests – describing it as his version of March Madness
- Going to the movies is his favorite hobby
- Self-proclaimed comic book nerd and his favorite show is Collider Heroes, which is a weekly YouTube show dedicated to comic books and comic book films
- Has roughly 600 different comics on his iPad
- Enjoys yoga, building 3D laser-cut metal models, watching golf, playing Xbox, playing with his dogs, Puff and Lego and taking them to the dog park.
Olympic Experience
- 1-time Olympian; 2-time Olympic medalist (1 gold, 1 bronze)
- Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2016, gold (4 x 100m Medley Relay - Men), bronze (100m Breaststroke - Men)
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2017 – gold (4 x 100m Medley Relay - Men), 5th (100m Breaststroke - Men), 16th (50m Breaststroke - Men)
- Years of participation: 100m Breaststroke - Men 2015, 2017; 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Men 2015, 2017; 50m Breaststroke - Men 2017; 100m Breaststroke (SC) - Men 2014, 2016; 4 x 100m Medley Relay (SC) - Men 2014, 2016; 4 x 50m Medley Relay (SC) - Men 2014, 2016; 4 x 50m Medley Relay (SC) - Mixed 2014, 2016; 50m Breaststroke (SC) - Men 2014, 2016; 200m Breaststroke (SC) - Men 2014
- Medals: 6 (3 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
- Gold – 2017 (4 x 100m Medley Relay - Men); 2016 (4 x 50m Medley Relay (SC) - Mixed); 2015 (4 x 100m Medley Relay - Men)
- Silver – 2016 (4 x 50m Medley Relay (SC) - Men); 2014 (4 x 100m Medley Relay (SC) - Men)
- Bronze – 2014 (4 x 50m Medley Relay (SC) - Men)
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