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Daniel Diehl

Daniel Diehl (born October 26, 2005) is an American competitive swimmer. He win gold medalist in 4 × 100 m freestyle, 4 × 200 m freestyle, and 4 × 100 m medley with silver medalist in 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley in 2023 World Junior Championships. He is a world junior record holder in the long course 4×100 meter freestyle relay and the short course 4×50 meter mixed freestyle relay. At the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, he won gold medals in the 100 meter backstroke, 4×100 meter freestyle relay, 4×100 meter medley relay, and the 4×100 meter mixed medley relay.

Daniel Diehl
Personal information
National teamUnited States United States
Born (2005-10-26) October 26, 2005 (age 19)[3]
Cumberland, Maryland, United States
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBackstroke, freestyle
ClubCumberland YMCA[1]
CoachBrian Dowling[2]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  United States
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Junior Championships 3 2 0
Junior Pan Pac Championships 4 0 0
Total 7 2 0
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Netanya 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2023 Netanya 4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2023 Netanya 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2023 Netanya 200 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 2023 Netanya 200 m medley
Junior Pan Pac Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Honolulu 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2022 Honolulu 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Honolulu 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2022 Honolulu 4×100 m mixed medley
U.S. Open Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Greensboro 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2022 Greensboro 200 m backstroke
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Greensboro 200 m medley

Background

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Diehl was born October 26, 2005, in Maryland, United States.[3] He trains under the guidance of coach Brian Dowling as part of the Cumberland YMCA swim team.[1][2]

Career

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2021–2022

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2021 Swimming World Cup

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Swimming the first leg of the 4×50 meter mixed freestyle relay at the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup stop held in Berlin, Germany, Diehl contributed to a gold medal-win in a world junior record time of 1:31.50 with finals relay teammates Quintin McCarty, Kristina Paegle, and Carly Novelline.[4][5] Six days later, at the stop held at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, he helped win the gold medal in the 4×50 meter mixed freestyle relay again, this time splitting a 22.45 to contribute to the final mark of 1:32.34.[6] The following day, he won the bronze medal in the 100 meter backstroke, finishing 1.77 seconds behind gold medalist and fellow American Tom Shields with a time of 52.27 seconds.[7]

2022 International Team Trials

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The following year, at the 2022 USA Swimming International Team Trials, held in Greensboro in April, Diehl earned spots on the United States roster for the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships based on his results in the 100 meter backstroke, in which he placed eighth with a time of 54.15 seconds.[8][9] Leading up to the Championships, he competed at the 2022 YMCA National Championships, winning national titles in five events, including the 200 meter backstroke where he won the event with a personal best time of 1:57.62 at 16 years of age.[2][10]

2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships

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2022 Junior Pan Pac Championships
  100 m backstroke 53.27 (CR,NAG)
  4×100 m mixed medley 3:46.83 (CR)
  4×100 m freestyle 3:15.79 (WJ,CR)
  4×100 m medley 3:36.65 (CR)

Commencing competition on day one at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center for the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, held in Honolulu in August, Diehl set a new Championships record with a personal best time of 53.40 seconds in the morning preliminaries of the 100 meter backstroke and qualified for the final ranking first.[11][12] In the evening finals session, he won the gold medal with another Championships record time, this time finishing over one full second ahead of the second-place finisher with a personal best of 53.27, which set a new National Age Group record in the event for the boys 15–16 age group.[13][14][15] Later in the finals session, he led-off the 4×100 meter mixed medley relay with a 53.42 to help win the gold medal in a new Championships record time of 3:46.83.[15][16] The following day, he won the b-final of the 100 meter freestyle with a time of 50.08 seconds.[16] In the morning on day three, he swam a 1:59.55 in the preliminaries of the 200 meter backstroke to qualify for the b-final ranking fastest out of all b-final qualifiers.[17] He withdrew from further competition in the event prior to the start of the finals.[18] Instead, he focused on the final of the 4×100 meter freestyle relay, swimming the fastest split time of his relay teammates with a 48.66 to contribute to a final time of 3:15.79, which set a world junior record and Championships record in the event and won the gold medal.[19][20][21]

Day four of four, Diehl finished in a time of 23.22 seconds in the preliminaries of the 50 meter freestyle to qualify for the b-final ranking second behind Thomas Heilman.[16][22] He won the b-final by over two-tenths of a second, finishing first in a time of 23.32 seconds.[16] Later in the session he led-off the 4×100 meter medley relay with a 54.24, helping achieve a Championships record time of 3:36.65 and win the gold medal.[16][23][24]

2022 Swimming World Cup

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At the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup stop conducted in short course meters and held at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis in November, Diehl swam a personal best time of 1:53.71 in the morning preliminary heats of the 200 meter backstroke on day one, advancing to the final ranking sixth.[25] For his second event of the morning, he swam a personal best time of 54.15 seconds in the 100 meter individual medley and placed twelfth.[26] In the evening session, he took 0.42 seconds off his 200-meter backstroke personal best time with a 1:53.29 and placed eighth.[27] Day two of three, he placed seventeenth in the 50 meter backstroke with a time of 24.29 seconds.[28] Later in the morning, he finished in a time of 48.66 seconds in the preliminary heats of the 100 meter freestyle, placing twenty-fifth.[29] The final day, he placed fourteenth in the 100 meter backstroke with a time of 52.29 seconds.[30]

2022 U.S. Open Championships

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On day two of the 2022 U.S. Open Swimming Championships, December 1, Diehl swam a personal best time of 2:00.50 in the preliminary heats of the 200 meter individual medley and qualified for the final ranking second.[31] He won the bronze medal in the evening final, this time finishing in a personal best time of 1:59.89, which was 3.37 seconds behind gold medalist Chase Kalisz.[32] The morning of day three, he set a new National Age Group record for the boys 17–18 age group in the 100 meter backstroke preliminaries with a time of 53.11 seconds, which qualified him to the final ranking first and lowered the former record of 53.38 seconds set by Ryan Murphy in 2013 by 0.27 seconds.[33][34][35] In the evening, he won the gold medal in another personal best and National Age Group record time of 53.07 seconds.[36][37] The final morning, he tied his personal best time in the 200 meter backstroke in the preliminaries with a time of 1:57.62 and qualified for the final ranking first.[38] For the evening final, his last race of the Championships, he swam 1.21 seconds faster than in the morning, winning the gold medal with a personal best time of 1:56.41.[39]

2022 Winter Junior National Championships

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The following week, Diehl placed second in the 200 yard individual medley at the 2022 Winter Junior US National Championships edition East with a personal best time of 1:43.01. For day three, he swam personal best times of 46.40 seconds and 46.01 seconds in the preliminary heats and final, respectively, of the 100 yard backstroke and placed fourth.[40] On the fourth and final day, he won the 200 yard backstroke in the evening finals session with a personal best time of 1:39.62, which was 2.10 seconds faster than the personal best time of 1:41.72 he swam in the morning to qualify for the final ranking first.[41]

2023–present

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Diehl achieved four wins in individual events at the 2023 Speedo Sectionals conducted in long course meters in March in Indianapolis, the 200 meter backstroke with a 1:56.59 on March 23, the 100 meter butterfly with a personal best time of 53.03 seconds on March 24, the 100 meter backstroke with a 53.70 on March 25, and the 200 meter individual medley with a 2:00.18 on March 26.[42]

In December 2023, Diehl signed a letter of intent to swim for the North Carolina State University Wolfpack. Diehl was the number two ranked swimmer in the country in his high school graduating class.[43]

International championships

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Meet 50 freestyle 100 freestyle 100 backstroke 200 backstroke 4×100 freestyle 4×100 medley 4×100 mixed medley
PACJ 2022 1st (b) 1st (b)   WD      

Personal best times

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Long course meters (50 m pool)

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Event Time Meet Location Date Notes Ref
50 m backstroke 25.28 2023 TYR Pro Swim Series - Knoxville Knoxville, Tennessee January 12, 2023 [44]
100 m backstroke 53.07 2022 U.S. Open Swimming Championships Greensboro, North Carolina December 2, 2022 NAG [36][37]
200 m backstroke 1:56.41 2022 U.S. Open Swimming Championships Greensboro, North Carolina December 3, 2022 [39]
100 m butterfly 53.03 2023 Speedo Sectionals - Indianapolis Indianapolis, Indiana March 24, 2023 [42]
200 m individual medley 1:59.89 2022 U.S. Open Swimming Championships Greensboro, North Carolina December 1, 2022 [32]
Legend: NAG – USA Swimming National Age Group record (boys 17–18);
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Short course meters (25 m pool)

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Event Time Meet Location Date Ref
50 m freestyle 22.41 h 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany October 1, 2021 [3]
100 m freestyle 48.29 h 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany October 2, 2021 [3]
50 m backstroke 24.09 h 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany October 2, 2021 [3]
100 m backstroke 51.76 h 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany October 3, 2021 [3]
200 m backstroke 1:53.29 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup Indianapolis, Indiana November 3, 2022 [27]
100 m individual medley 54.15 h 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup Indianapolis, Indiana November 3, 2022 [26]

Legend: h – preliminary heat

Short course yards (25 yd pool)

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Event Time Meet Location Date Ref
200 yd freestyle 1:33.68 2021 Winter Junior US National Championships Greensboro, North Carolina December 10, 2021 [45]
100 yd backstroke 46.01 2022 Winter Junior US National Championships Greensboro, North Carolina December 9, 2022 [40]
200 yd backstroke 1:39.62 2022 Winter Junior US National Championships Greensboro, North Carolina December 10, 2022 [40][41]
200 yd individual medley 1:43.01 2022 Winter Junior US National Championships Greensboro, North Carolina December 8, 2022 [40]

World records

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World junior records

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Long course meters (50 m pool)

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No. Event Time Meet Location Date Age Status Ref
1 4×100 m freestyle 3:15.79 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships Honolulu, Hawaii August 26, 2022 16 years, 304 days Current [19][20][21]

Short course meters (25 m pool)

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No. Event Time Meet Location Date Age Status Ref
1 4×50 m mixed freestyle 1:31.50 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany October 2, 2021 15 years, 341 days Current [4][5]

Awards and honors

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  • The Dapper Dan Club, George Stevenson/Nick Perlozzo Dapper Dan Top Award: 2021,[46] 2022[46]

References

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