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Ryan Cochrane has competed for Canada Ryan Cochrane has won 1 silver medal at the Olympic Games Ryan Cochrane has won 1 bronze medal at the Olympic Games

Ryan Cochrane is a swimmer who has competed for Canada. He competed at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

Cochrane was widely regarded as the top Canadian swimmer in the long-distance freestyle race through the 2000s and 2010s. At his first Games in 2008, he briefly held an Olympic record time of 14:40.84 in his heat before Grant Hackett cleared a 14:40 barrier to reclaim the record and lead the field for the top eight final. Cochrane continued to snatch a bronze outside the record time in 14:42.69. With this feat, he became the first Canadian swimmer to win an Olympic medal after eight years and the first in a long-distance freestyle race since 1920.

Cochrane added a silver in the same race at London 2012 with an American record time (14:39.63), edging out the defending champion Oussama Mellouli by 0.68 of a second. He almost entered the top eight final of the 400 metres freestyle after Park Tae-hwan was disqualified for a false start. An appeal from Park and the Korean Olympic Committee to overturn the decision soon bumped Cochrane out of the roster to ninth, missing the final by a hundredth of a second (0.01)

Cochrane was selected as the co-captain of the Canadian swimming team at his third Olympics in 2016. He missed again the top eight final of the 400 metres freestyle with an eleventh place time and finished sixth in the 1500, leaving the Games without a single medal.

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Rank
2008 Men's 400m freestyle 9th
Men's 1500m freestyle Bronze
2012 Men's 400m freestyle 9th
Men's 1500m freestyle Silver
2016 Men's 400m freestyle 11th
Men's 1500m freestyle 6th

2008[]

Discipline Round Time
400 metres freestyle Heats 3:44.85 NR
Final Did not advance
1500 metres freestyle Heats 14:40.84 AR
Final 14:42.69

2012[]

Discipline Round Time
400 metres freestyle Heats 3:47.26
Final Did not advance
1500 metres freestyle Heats 14:49.31
Final 14:39.63 AR

2016[]

Discipline Round Time
400 metres freestyle Heats 3:45.83
Final Did not advance
1500 metres freestyle Heats 14:53.44
Final 14:49.61
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