Adam Brown (swimmer)

{{Short description|British swimmer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}}

{{Use British English|date=September 2018}}

{{Infobox swimmer

| name = Adam Brown

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| fullname = Adam Thorp Brown

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| national_team = {{GBR2}}

| strokes = Freestyle

| club = Hatfield Swimming Club

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| collegeteam = Auburn University

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1989|1|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Cambridge, England

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| height = 1.96 m

| weight = 95 kg

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{{MedalSport | Men's swimming}}

{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalGold | 2014 Glasgow | 4x100 m medley relay}}

{{MedalSilver | 2010 Delhi | 4×100 m freestyle}}

{{MedalBronze | 2010 Delhi | 4×100 m medley}}

{{MedalBronze | 2014 Glasgow | 4x100 m freestyle relay}}

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Adam Thorp Brown (born 16 January 1989) is an English competition swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympics and FINA world championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games. Brown specialises in the 50-metre and 100-metre freestyle sprint swimming events.

He moved to Australia to the Gold Coast, Queensland to attend The Southport School in 2006, from which he graduated in December 2007. Brown accepted an athletic scholarship to attend Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, where he swam for coach David Marsh and coach Brett Hawke's Auburn Tigers swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC) competition from 2008 to 2011. He married Mary Casey Brown in October 2012 in Cleveland, Alabama, and continues to live and train in Auburn.

He has been a part of the British senior national team since 2008 where he represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay. He also represented Great Britain at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Italy. He was a part of the English team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India. He swam for Great Britain at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, China. The following year he got to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. In 2013 he went on to compete at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he was part of the England team that won a gold in the 4 x 100 m medley relay in a new Games record, and bronze in the 4 x 100 m freestyle relay.{{Cite web|url=http://g2014results.thecgf.com/athlete/swimming/1023730/adam_brown.html|title=Glasgow 2014 - Adam Brown Profile|website=g2014results.thecgf.com|access-date=2017-11-11}}