Josh Prenot
American swimmer
Joshua Prenot (born July 28, 1993) is a former American competitive swimmer who competed for the University of California at Berkeley and was a 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic silver medalist in the men's 200-meter breaststroke. He specialized in breaststroke and individual medley events.
Prenot was born in Sedalia, Missouri on July 28, 1993 to Bill and Tammy Prenot, and raised in Santa Maria, California, where at 12, he began swimming with the Santa Maria Swim Club.
Early life and swimming
At 14, swimming for the Santa Maria Club in August 2007 at the Long Course Junior Olympics, he swam a 2:25.50 in the in 200 butterfly, a 2:19.63 in the 200 Individual Medley, and a 4:54.60 in the 400 individual medley, winning all three events and leading Santa Maria to a third place team finish. Swimming for the Santa Maria Club in the Central California 2006 Junior Olympics in March in Bakersfield, Prenot received golds in the 500 freestyle and 200 Individual Medley, and received a silver medal in seven other events. In youthful international competition, as a member of the National Junior Team, he had an eighth place finish in the 400 IM at the 2011 Summer Nationals. He captured a fourth place 400 IM finish in the Peru Junior World Championships.
In the summer of 2012, Prenot just missed qualifying in the 200-meter individual medley at the Olympic trails in Omaha, Nebraska, for the 2012 Olympics. At 19, in the Western Zones Swimming Championships in Clovis, New Mexico in early August, 2012 he won the 200 individual medley, the 100 breaststroke, and the 100 butterfly.
UC Berkeley swimmer
Prenot swam for the University of California Berkeley under Head Coach Dave Durden, where in 2012, he began his freshman year.
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