Michael Gunning

Michael Gunning (born 29 April 1994) is a Jamaican-British competitive swimmer who is best known for participating in the 200 metre butterfly event. He competed in the 200 metre butterfly and the men's 200 metre freestyle event in both the 2017 World Aquatics Championships and 2019 World Aquatics Championships.[1][2]

Michael Gunning
Personal information
Born (1994-04-29) 29 April 1994
Sport
SportSwimming

Gunning was a participant at the reality bisexual dating show The Bi Life hosted by Courtney Act, coming out as gay on the show in late 2018. He later went on to win the Pride Award at the Attitude Pride Awards 2019 for his efforts to raise LGBTQ+ visibility around the globe in sports.[3] In 2022, Michael was a contributor in BBC One's 'Tom Daley: Illegal to be Me' documentary, and was announced as the Host at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games for the swimming events.

Personal life

Gunning was born on 29 April at Farnborough Hospital in Kent, England, the son of Gillian Trinder and Shaun Gunning. He has one brother – Luke Gunning who is three years younger, and also swam competitively.

Gunning is a survivor of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.[4]

References
  1. "Heats results". FINA. Archived from the original on 27 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  2. "2017 World Aquatics Championships > Search via Athletes". Budapest 2017. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  3. "Exclusive: The Bi Life's Michael Gunning on coming out as gay, castmate crushes, and aiming for Tokyo 2020". Attitude.co.uk. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  4. McRae, Donald (24 May 2022). "Michael Gunning: 'It's only recently that I've been proud to say I'm a swimmer'". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
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