Danyon Loader

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Olympic medal record
Men's swimming
Gold	1996 Atlanta	200 m freestyle
Gold	1996 Atlanta	400 m freestyle
Silver	1992 Barcelona	200 m butterfly

Danyon Joseph Loader ONZM (born on April 21, 1975 in Timaru) is a swimmer from New Zealand. He represented New Zealand at three Commonwealth Games; 1990, 1994 and 1998 and two Olympic Games; 1992 and 1996. In 1992, at Barcelona, he won a silver medal in the 200m Butterfly. In 1996, he won two gold medals in Atlanta, in the 200m and 400m freestyle races. He set World Records in the 200m butterfly and 400m freestyle (short course) and was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2002.

He has recently reappeared on the local swimming scene after years spent away from it. He is now interested in coaching.

He was recently voted off the New Zealand version of Dancing with the Stars.

Olympic champions in men's 200 m freestyle
1900: Frederick Lane \| 1968: Michael Wenden \| 1972: Mark Spitz \| 1976: Bruce Furniss \| 1980: Sergey Kopliakov \| 1984: Michael Gross \| 1988: Duncan Armstrong \| 1992: Yevgeny Sadovyi \| 1996: Danyon Loader \| 2000: Pieter van den Hoogenband \| 2004: Ian Thorpe