British swimmer
Nicholas Pyle
Full name Nicholas Edward Pyle National team Great Britain Born (2000-12-17 ) 17 December 2000 (age 24) Sport Swimming Strokes Backstroke Club Newcastle Swim Team Coach Steven Tigg
Nicholas Edward Pyle (born 17 December 2000) is an English swimmer who specialises in backstroke . He has won gold representing Great Britain at the European Championships .
Background
Pyle is from Newcastle upon Tyne , where he attended St Cuthbert's High School .[ 1] He was a member of Newcastle Swim Team.[ 2] He finished his A-level in 2019, and moved to University of Stirling to train with his team mates.[ 3]
Career
In 2018, Pyle won his first gold at the British Championships held in Edinburgh in the 50 metre backstroke.[ 4] He won a bronze in the 100 metre backstroke at the European Junior Championships in Helsinki in a personal best time of 54.69.[ 5]
Pyle had his debut on a senior British team at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow . He was part of the British quartet with Adam Peaty , James Guy and Duncan Scott in the final of the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay which they won, earning Pyle his first senior European title.[ 6] He won a further gold in the 4×100 metre mixed medley relay as part of the team, only swimming in the preliminaries but not in the final.[ 7]
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1958: Soviet Union (Barbier , Minashkin , Chenenkov , Polevoy )
1962: East Germany (Dietze , Henninger , Gregor , Wiegand )
1966: Soviet Union (Mazanov , Prokopenko , Kuzmin , Ilyichov )
1970: East Germany (Matthes , Katzur , Poser , Unger )
1974: West Germany (Steinbach , Kusch , Meeuw , Nocke )
1977: West Germany (Steinbach , Mörken , Kraus , Nocke )
1981: Soviet Union (Kuznetsov , Kis , Markovsky , Krasyuk )
1983: Soviet Union (Shemetov , Žulpa , Markovsky , Smiryagin )
1985: West Germany (Lebherz , Beab , Gross , Schowtka )
1987: Soviet Union (Polyansky , Volkov , Petrov , Prigoda )
1989: Soviet Union (Zabolotnov , Volkov , Yaroshchuk , Bashkatov )
1991: Soviet Union (Selkov , Volkov , Kulikov , Popov )
1993: Russia (Selkov , Kirinchuk , Pankratov , Popov )
1995: Russia (Selkov , Korneyev , Pankratov , Popov )
1997: Russia (Selkov , Korneyev , Kulikov , Popov )
1999: Netherlands (Zwering , Wouda , Aartsen , Van den Hoogenband )
2000: Russia (Aminov , Komornikov , Chernyshov , Popov )
2002: Russia (Alechin , Sloudnov , Marchenko , Popov )
2004: Ukraine (Nikolaychuk , Lisohor , Serdinov , Yegoshin )
2006: Russia (Vyatchanin , Sloudnov , Skvortsov , Kapralov )
2008: Russia (Vyatchanin , Falko , Korotyshkin , Grechin )
2010: France (Lacourt , Duboscq , Bousquet , Gilot )
2012: Italy (Di Tora , Scozzoli , Rivolta , Magnini )
2014: Great Britain (Walker-Hebborn , Peaty , Barrett , Proud )
2016: Great Britain (Walker-Hebborn , Peaty , Guy , Scott )
2018: Great Britain (Pyle , Peaty , Guy , Scott )
2020: Great Britain (Greenbank , Peaty , Guy , Scott )
2022: Italy (Ceccon , Martinenghi , Rivolta , Miressi )
2024: Austria (Reitshammer , Bayer , Bucher , Gigler )