Patrick Callan

Kevin Patrick Callan American competitive swimmer. In 2017, he won a silver medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay at the 2017 World Junior Championships. In 2020, he won silver medals in the 200-meter freestyle and the 400-meter freestyle at the year's U.S. Open Championships. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Callan was part of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay that took fourth place. At the 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, he won a bronze medal in the 4×200-yard freestyle relay. He has a younger brother, Christopher Jack Callan, who currently swims at the University of Michigan.

Early life and education Callan was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the autumn of 2022, he started pursuing a graduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, where he competes as part of the California Golden Bears swim team via a fifth year of NCAA eligibility. He represented the United States at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Indianapolis, winning the silver medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Callan also placed fourth in the final of the 200-meter freestyle individual event.

2020 US Olympic Trials In November 2020, as part of preparation for the 2020 US Olympic Trials, held the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Callan competed in the virtual format 2020 U.S. Open Swimming Championships, winning the silver medal in the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:47.38 and the bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle with a time of 3:49.34. He placed sixth in the final of the 200-meter freestyle at the 2020 Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, Nebraska with a time of 1:46.49, qualifying him for the 2020 Olympic Games in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay.

2020 Summer Olympics

Callan qualified for his first Olympic Games in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. His sixth place finish at the US Olympic Trials situated him as a relay-only prelims swimmer for the 4×200-meter freestyle relay heading into the 2020 Olympics. In the preliminaries of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, Callan swam alongside Blake Pieroni, Drew Kibler, and Andrew Seliskar and the relay ranked fifth overall and advanced to the final. In the final, the relay finished fourth overall.

2022 2022 Big Ten Championships On the first day of the 2022 Big Ten Conference Championships in February, Callan achieved a second-place finish in 6:14.59 in the 4×200-yard freestyle relay, splitting a 1:34.03 for the lead-off leg of the relay. In the prelims heats of the 500-yard freestyle the following day, he ranked fourth with a 4:16.63 and advanced to the evening finals. For the final, he swam a 4:16.72 to place sixth. Day three, he ranked fifth in the prelims heats and qualified for the final of the 200 yard freestyle with his time of 1:34.27. He placed sixth in the final, swimming slightly faster than in the prelims heats with a time of 1:34.00. The fourth and final day, he swam a 43.98 in the prelims heats of the 100 yard freestyle, ranking 23rd overall, and in the final he earned two points for the Michigan Wolverines with a time of 44.05 seconds, overall 23rd rank, and seventh-place finish in the c-final.

Five days after the end of the Championships, Callan swam a 3:56.30 and placed fifth in the 400 meter freestyle at the 2022 Pro Swim Series in Westmont, Illinois. In the prelims heats of the 200 meter freestyle the following day, he qualified for the final ranking first with a 1:50.58. He placed fourth in the final with a time of 1:49.83, finishing 1.20 seconds behind fellow 2020 US Olympic team member Jake Mitchell.

2022 NCAA Championships Leading up to the 2022 NCAA Division I Championships following the Pro Swim Series in Westmont, Callan announced he was staying at the University of Michigan to compete the following collegiate season as a fifth year, also called a super senior. The first day of competition, he led-off the 4×200 yard freestyle relay in 1:33.10 to help achieve a fourteenth-place finish in 6:14.56. In the morning the following day, he swam a 4:16.44 in the 500 yard freestyle and placed 28th. In the prelims heats of the 200 yard freestyle on day three, he placed 22nd with a 1:33.14. He did not swim in the b-final. Two days later, he swam a 3:55.36 for the prelims heats of the 400 meter freestyle, qualifying for the b-final ranking 13th overall. He decided to not swim the event in the finals session.

2022 Swimming World Cup As part of his first FINA Swimming World Cup at the 2022 Swimming World Cup held in October in Toronto, Canada, Callan placed ninth in the 400 meter freestyle with a personal best time of 3:47.18. In the 200 meter freestyle two days later, he placed fourteenth in the preliminary heats with a personal best time of 1:45.93, which was 2.35 seconds slower than the fastest swimmer in the preliminary heats Matthew Sates of South Africa. One day prior, he placed twenty-sixth in the 100 meter freestyle with a personal best time of 49.72 seconds, which was 2.76 seconds behind the first-ranked swimmer in the preliminary heats Kyle Chalmers of Australia.

The following World Cup stop, held in his home county at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Callan placed nineteenth in the 400 meter freestyle on day one with a time of 3:49.14. On the third and final day, he swam a 1:46.88 in the 200 meter freestyle and placed twenty-fifth overall.

2023 For the final dual meet of his fifth year in the NCAA, where he represented the California Golden Bears in a duel meet against the Stanford Cardinal in February 2023, Callan competed in the 200-yard freestyle, finishing as the fastest California Golden Bear swimmer with a time of 1:34.40 to place third overall.

2023 Pac-12 Championships Leading off the 4×200 yard freestyle relay on day one of the 2023 Pac-12 Conference Championships, conducted at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Washington, Callan helped win the silver medal with a split time of 1:32.74 that contributed to the final relay time of 6:09.65. In his first individual event of the Championships the following day, the 500 yard freestyle on March 2, he placed fourth with a 4:12.45, finishing within a quarter of a second of the bronze medalist. His time ranked fifth all-time for the California Golden Bears men's swim program. On the final day, he placed eighteenth in the preliminaries of the 200 yard butterfly with a time of 1:46.81 before withdrawing from competition in the c-final. The 6:06.41 set a new California Golden Bears men's swim program record in the event. In his two individual events he placed thirty-second in each, finishing in a time of 4:17.54 in the preliminaries of the 500 yard freestyle on day two and in a time of 1:33.59 in the preliminaries of the 200 yard freestyle on day three.

International championships Callan swam only in the prelims heats. Callan was not a member of the finals relay that was disqualified.

Personal best times Long course meters (50 m pool) Event Time Meet Location Date Ref 200 m freestyle 1:46.49 2020 US Olympic Trials Omaha, Nebraska June 15, 2021 400 m freestyle 3:49.34 2020 U.S. Open Swimming Championships United States November 13, 2020

Short course meters (25 m pool) Event Time Meet Location Date Ref 100 m freestyle 49.72 h 2022 Swimming World Cup Toronto, Canada October 29, 2022 200 m freestyle 1:45.93 h 2022 Swimming World Cup Toronto, Canada October 30, 2022 400 m freestyle 3:47.18 h 2022 Swimming World Cup Toronto, Canada October 28, 2022 Legend: h – preliminary heat