Danyon Loader

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

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 200 m butterfly and 400 m 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 and takes part in youth development programmes.

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