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Torpedo Swimtalk Podcast with Ryan Held - Olympic Swimming Gold Medallist and FINA Masters Swimming WR holder

May 08, 2022 • Danielle Spurling • Episode 69

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Today's podcast guest is 2016 Olympic Gold Medallist and recent FINA Masters WR holder, US Olympian Ryan Held from the New York Athletic Club.

We talked about Ryan's swim in the 4x100m free relay to win gold in Rio '16 and how he ended up swimming that third leg in the final, with Michael Phelps, Nathan Adrian and Caleb Dressel as team mates. We also discussed the recent 2022 US Nationals and Ryan's 100m freestyle race that got him back onto that US Team for the upcoming World Championships..

In between those two bookends, Ryan experienced a few set backs, that might have made other swimmers throw in the towel, so to speak. But his quiet determination, hard work and humility ensured Ryan came back to form at just the right time. Not to say that there weren't highlights in that time, namely breaking the US 100m National Freestyle record in 2019 and in 2021 breaking the 25-29 yrs FINA Masters WR in the 50m free.

Ryan's stories around all these events are just pretty terrific. I love the fact he is a huge fan of masters swimming and he sees himself doing more masters meets when he retires from professional swimming. Not yet though! he has plenty more goals to reach leading into Paris 2024.

Ryan is certainly a swimmer to watch and a joy to have on the podcast. You will love this chat.

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