Braedan Jason

Braedan Jason (born 15 May 1998) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.

Personal Jason was born on 15 May 1998 in Cronulla, New South Wales. He is the second oldest of four boys. He was born with cone dystrophy resulting in him having ten percent vision and being classed as being legally blind.

Sporting career Jason began swimming at the age of eight. In April 2015, Jason competed at the Australian Swimming Championships where the able-bodied and the Paralympic teams were combined.

At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London, he swam in five events and his best placing was fourth in the Men's 400m Freestyle (S13) and broke Oceania records in Men's 100m Butterfly (S12) and Men's 100m Freestyle (S12).

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, he finished fourth in the Men's 400 m freestyle S13, fifth in the Men's 100 m freestyle S12, and sixth in the Men's 100 m butterfly S12.

At the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, he finished 4th in the Men's 50 m Freestyle S13.

He was coached by Jan Cameron at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Sippy Downs, Queensland. Since 2021, he has been coached by Nathan Doyle.