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| Full name | Arthur Byron MacDonald | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 23, 1950 Evanston, Illinois | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Michigan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arthur Byron MacDonald (born July 23, 1950) is an American Canadian swimming coach who helms the Toronto Varsity Blues swim teams at the University of Toronto. He is a former swimmer who competed for Canada in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. MacDonald placed sixth in the final of the men's 100-metre butterfly, and also competed in the preliminary heats of the 200-metre butterfly, but did not advance.[1] He is currently the head coach of the Toronto Titans for the International Swimming League, and has also
MacDonald coached Varsity Blues swim teams to 24 Canadian Interuniversity Sport USports National Championships — Fifteen women's, and nine men's [2]—including most recently, a women's and men's team competition sweep of the 2015-2016 national titles.[3] He has also coached the Varsity Blues teams to 60 Conference (OUA) titles — 32men and 28 women. Two of MacDonald's swimmers have won Olympic medals — most recently Kylie Masse at the 2016 Olympic Games in the 100metre backstroke.[4]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Byron MacDonald". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
- ^ "University of Toronto Varsity Blues - Swimming Coaching Staff". University of Toronto. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ "CIS swimming championships: Toronto sweep both titles for the first time in 23 years". Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ "Kylie Masse – Swimming Canada".