Bob Sreenan
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | |||||||||||
| Born | 7 May 1934 Manchester, England | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
Event | Freestyle | |||||||||||
| Club | Dundee Whitehall | |||||||||||
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Robert Christie Sreenan (born 7 May 1934) is a British former swimmer. Sreenan competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
[edit]Sreenan was a member of the Dundee Whitehall Swimming Club[2] and won the 1957 ASA National Championship 440 yards freestyle title.[3]
He was selected for the 1958 Scottish team[4] for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he competed in the 440y freestyle, 1650y freestyle and 4×220y freestyle relay[5] and won a silver medal.[6]
In October 1958 he won the 400 yards Bologna Trophy but was disqualified for touching the end rail which the organisers had forgotten to remove.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Profile". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ↑ "Scots Swimmers for Moscow". Sunday Post. 2 June 1957. p. 28. Retrieved 4 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ ""Four Swimming Records." Times, 11 Sept. 1957, p. 14". Times Digital Archive.
- ↑ "Lindsay chosen for Scots athletics team". The Scotsman. 2 June 1958. p. 9. Retrieved 4 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Scotland Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
- ↑ "Winner Thirty Yards behind!". Daily Mirror. 27 October 1958. p. 21. Retrieved 14 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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