Olympic Profiles - Diving - Ben Swain
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Name: Ben Swain
Date of Birth: 31/03/1986
Born: Welwyn Garden City
Lives: Sheffield
Sport: Diving
Section: Men’s 3m synchro, men’s 3m springboard
Club: City of Sheffield
Interesting Fact: Ben began his diving career at the Hatfield-based Beaumont Diving Academy.
Swain and diving partner Nick Robinson-Baker competed in the FINA World Series event earlier this year where they won a bronze medal.
He is currently studying a degree in Sport and Exercise Science with Manchester Metropolitan University.
WHT Olympic analysis: With Canada and China going into the event as favourites, bronze medal is certainly a minimum aim for Swain and partner Robinson-Baker. However, as Swain says "the littlest mistake can cost many places in the table,"
So anything is possible. Expect the former Monk’s Walk School pupil to be challenging for a podium in Beijing.
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