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Duncan Laing and Danyon Loader, Atlanta, 1996

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Duncan Laing and Danyon Loader, Atlanta, 1996

Swimmer Danyon Loader (right) poses with his coach Duncan Laing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Loader won gold in both the 200-metre and the 400-metre freestyle. He had previously won a silver medal in the 200-metre butterfly at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

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Joseph Romanos, Olympic and Commonwealth games – On the water – the 1980s at the Olympics, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/37911/duncan-laing-and-danyon-loader-atlanta-1996 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Joseph Romanos, published 14 November 2012, updated 1 June 2023.