Michael Andrew

He also won the silver medal in the 50 meter freestyle and the 50 meter butterfly, placed 4th in the 100 meter backstroke, 4th in the 100 meter breaststroke, 7th in the 200 meter individual medley, 8th in the 50 meter breaststroke, and 9th in the 100 meter butterfly.

For his two relay events, Andrew won a silver medal as part of the men's 4×100 meter medley relay where he swam backstroke in the prelims and butterfly in the final and a bronze medal on the mixed 4×100 meter medley relay where he swam the breaststroke leg of the relay in the final.

FINA named him male swimmer of the meet.

Andrew's parents, Peter and Tina, are South African citizens who moved to the United States in 1997.

His father served in the South African Navy as a diver.

His mother appeared in the British and South African versions of Gladiators, as Laser and Sheena respectively, and his younger sister used to swim.

His family lived in Aberdeen, South Dakota, from 1997 to 2011, where Andrew started swimming at age 7 and competed for the Aberdeen Swim Club.

Soon after, Andrew's father decided he wanted to coach Andrew himself so his parents bought and converted a nightclub in Aberdeen into a four-lane pool so Andrew could train with Peter as coach, then purchased the building next door and made it into their home.

Michael Charles Andrew (born April 18, 1999) is an American competitive swimmer and an Olympic gold medalist.

The family moved to Lawrence, Kansas, in 2011.

As the house in Lawrence did not come with a pool, they built a shed and a two-lane training pool in the backyard where Andrew was coached by his father.

In 2013, Andrew turned professional at the age of 14 and became the youngest American swimmer to do so.

As a junior swimmer he broke more than 100 National Age Group records (long course meters and short course yards combined), more than any other American swimmer.

Part of Andrew's coaching by his father during his youth included training in a non-traditional way, using a method called Ultra Short Race Pace Training (USRPT), he has continued to train with this approach into adulthood.

Andrew was home-schooled as part of an online program through Liberty University for part of his teenage years after he turned pro in swimming.

Taking a home-schooling pathway for education, he chose not to compete in high school nor collegiate swimming.

His time of 1:59.44 in the 200 meter individual medley semifinals tied the world junior record in the event set in 2013 by Gunnar Bentz.

At the 2014 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, in August in Maui, Hawaii, Andrew won the silver medal in the 100 meter backstroke with a time of 55.81 seconds, placed ninth in the 100 meter butterfly and the 50 meter freestyle, 20th in the 200 meter individual medley, 22nd in the 100 meter freestyle and the 100 meter breaststroke, and swam exhibition in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay and the 4×100 meter medley relay.

In August 2015, Andrew made his international debut when he was 16 years old at the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore.

He competed in ten events, eight individual and two relays, reached the semifinals or final in all ten events, competed in the final in nine events, and won medals in five events.

He won the gold medal in the 50 meter backstroke, breaking the Championships record in both the heats and the final.

He was the 2016 world champion in the 100 meter individual medley.

Andrew competed in his first Olympic Trials at the 2016 USA Swimming Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska when he was 17 years old.

He swam in five individual events: 50 meter freestyle, 100 meter freestyle, 100 meter breaststroke, 100 meter butterfly, and 200 meter individual medley.

While he did not make the USA Olympic Team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Andrew was closest to making the team in the 100 meter breaststroke where he finished in fourth place.

With his swim of 59.96 seconds in the prelims heats of the 100 meter breaststroke, Andrew became the youngest American to swim the event in less than one minute, set a National Age Group record in the event, and broke the world junior record of 1:00.12 in the event set by Anton Chupkov of Russia.

Andrew lowered his National Age Group and world junior records in the final of the 100 meter breaststroke by swimming the race in 59.82 seconds.

At the 2016 World Swimming Championships held in Windsor, Canada in December 2016 and conducted in short course meters, Andrew won the gold medal and his first individual world title at a world championships meet open to all ages in the 100 meter individual medley with a time of 51.84.

He finished 17 hundredths of a second ahead of 2016 Olympic medalist Daiya Seto of Japan who finished second.

In the 50 meter breaststroke he finished ninth in the semifinals and did not advance to the final.

In 2017, Andrew became the first person to achieve three world junior records in one session at a World Junior Swimming Championships.

When the University opened a pool in 2018, Andrew participated in the first event held at the pool, the 2018 TYR Junior National Cup, to be part of its grand opening.

At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships, he became the first male swimmer to final in all four strokes, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle, in the 50 meter events at a single World Aquatics Championships.

At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, he won three medals in individual events, a silver medal in the 50 meter freestyle, a bronze medal in the 50 meter breaststroke, and a bronze medal in the 50 meter butterfly.

Andrew is the world junior record holder in the 50 meter freestyle and a former holder of world junior records in the 50 meter backstroke, 50 meter butterfly, 100 meter breaststroke, and 200 meter individual medley in long course meters.

He is also a world record and Olympic record holder in the long course 4x100 meter medley relay, in which he swam breaststroke, along with Ryan Murphy (backstroke), Caeleb Dressel (butterfly), and Zach Apple (freestyle).

Over the course of his career, Andrew has also achieved multiple continental and national records in the 50 meter breaststroke and 100 meter breaststroke events.

At his first Olympic Games, the 2020 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal and set a world record as part of the 4x100 meter medley relay, placed fourth in the 100 meter breaststroke, fourth in the 50 meter freestyle, and fifth in the 200 meter individual medley.

Andrew's swims in 2021 at the 2020 Olympics made him the first swimmer to represent the United States at an Olympic Games in an individual breaststroke event as well as another individual event other than an individual medley in the then-125-year-history of swimming at the Summer Olympics.

He has won 78 medals at Swimming World Cup circuits.