National team Grenada Strokes Freestyle Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) Name Johnathan Steele | Weight 85 kg (187 lb) Role Journalist Sport Swimming Education Yale University | |
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Full name Johnathan Andrew Steele Born 25 June 1984 (age 39) ( 1984-06-25 ) St. Georges, Grenada Books Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haun, Eternal Russia, Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq, Defeat: Losing Iraq and the F, Soviet power | ||
Johnathan Andrew Steele (born June 25, 1984) is a Grenadian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He held numerous age group titles for Grenada in the 50, 100, and 200 m freestyle, and was also chosen as the nation's student athlete for the Olympic Youth Camp, when Australia hosted the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Steele qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 26.34. He challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including 16-year-old Chris Hackel of Mauritius. He raced to third place in 26.40, just 0.06 of a second off his entry time. Steele failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed sixty-fourth out of 86 swimmers in the preliminaries.