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Matthew Kidd

swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ6790801 ↗
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Matthew Kidd (born 27 October 1979) is a freestyle swimmer from Great Britain.

Swimming career

Matthew competed in the 100 metre freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing 23rd fastest overall. He combined with the British squad to place 8th in the 4×100 metre medley relay final in a time of 3 minutes 37.77 seconds. His anchor split was 49.14 seconds, marginally slower than his preliminary split time of 49.05 seconds.

He won the 2002 and 2004 British Championship in 100 metres freestyle.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2004, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-10-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Matthew, Kidd and swimmer.
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This entry incorporates text from “Matthew Kidd” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.