Sascha Kindred, born on 13 December 1977 in Münster, Germany, is a British swimmer who has competed at six Summer Paralympic Games, winning thirteen medals. He moved to Britain at the age of three, began swimming for a club at eleven and trained at local clubs such as Oldham. At Sydney in 2000 he won two gold medals, a silver and a bronze, and at Athens in 2004 he won two golds, defending the 100 metre breaststroke SB7 and 200 metre individual medley SM6 titles he had won in Sydney. He won his fifth Paralympic gold in the SM6 200 metre individual medley at Beijing in 2008, setting a new world record of 2:49.
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Sascha Kindred (born 13 December 1977 in Münster, Germany) is a British swimmer who has competed in six Summer Paralympic Games, winning thirteen medals.
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Sascha Kindred (born 13 December 1977 in Münster, Germany) is a British swimmer who has competed in six Summer Paralympic Games, winning thirteen medals.
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Kindred won his fifth Paralympic gold in the 200 m individual medley SM6 at the 2008 Games in Beijing, where he set a new world record time of 2:49.19 and earned the title for the third
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