Archie Goodburn
{{short description|British swimmer (born 2001)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
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| event = Breaststroke
| universityteam = University of Edinburgh
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{{MedalCompetition|British Swimming Championships}}
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{{MedalCompetition|FINA World Junior Swimming Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|2019 Budapest|50m breaststroke}}
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Archie Goodburn (born 26 June 2001) is a swimmer from Scotland, who is a British Champion and competed in the Commonwealth Games.{{cite web|url=https://www.worldaquatics.com/athletes/1134746/archie-goodburn/profile |title=Archie Goodburn |publisher=World Aquatics |access-date=16 April 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://swimswam.com/tag/archie-goodburn/ |title=Archie Goodburn |publisher=Swim Swam |access-date=16 April 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.birmingham2022.com/athletes/archie-goodburn/369e1c93-f201-4b31-b3f9-851c2e20afc4 |title=Archie Goodburn |website=Birmingham2022.com |publisher=Birmingham Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Limited |access-date=16 April 2023}}
Career
Goodburn made his Commonwealth Games debut in the men's 50-metre breaststroke.{{cite web|url=https://www.scottishswimming.com/our-sports/swimming/profiles/archie-goodburn |title=Archie Goodburn / SWIMMING |publisher=Scottish Swimming |access-date=16 April 2023}}
Goodburn won a bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke at the 2019 World Junior Swimming Championships and won the gold medal at the 2023 British Swimming Championships, in the 50 metres breaststroke.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishswimming.org/events-and-tickets/british-swimming-championships-2023/|title=British Swimming Championships 2023 |publisher=British Swimming |access-date=16 April 2023}}
Personal life
In June 2024 Goodburn announced that he had been diagnosed with three oligodendrogliomas, a form of cancer that can affect the brain and spinal cord, and that he would be undergoing courses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy to address this issue.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/cw0y47pr450o|title=Swimmer Goodburn diagnosed with inoperable brain tumours|publisher=BBC News|access-date=27 June 2024}}
References
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External links
- {{World Aquatics}}
- {{Swimrankings}}
- {{Team Scotland|archie-goodburn}}
- {{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|61460}}
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Category:Scottish male breaststroke swimmers
Category:British male breaststroke swimmers
Category:Swimmers from Edinburgh
Category:Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games swimmers for Scotland
Category:21st-century Scottish sportsmen
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