Daniel Jervis Swimmer

Daniel Jervis has won medals at two Commonwealth Games and appeared at three World Championships in the distance freestyle events - with his second Olympics on the horizon in Paris.

Dan secured that Olympic spot for Paris 2024 with a brilliant swim for victory in the Aquatics GB Swimming Championship 1500m Freestyle final.

Previous to that, his 2023 season culminated at the World Championships in Fukuoka, when he was 14th in the 1500m.

Jervis' two major competitions over the summer of 2022 saw him place 14th, 10th and 7th in the 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle events respectively at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, before a sole appearance in the 400m Freestyle final at Birmingham's Commonwealth Games saw the Team Wales athlete touch in eighth place.

The 2022 British Swimming Championships were a successful one for Dan, with the Swansea Aquatics swimmer picking up a hat-trick of British titles in the 400m, 800m and 1500m Freestyle. With the World Championships in Budapest and the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on the agenda for the summer, the Welshman was looking to build on his fifth place in the 1500m at the Tokyo Olympics last year, where he swam well on his Games debut. 

The Adam Baker-coached distance freestyle athlete went clear to dip under the 1500m consideration time at the British Swimming Selection Trials in London, before going on to place fifth in the final in that event at the European Championships.

A bronze in the 1500m at the 2014 Commonwealths in Glasgow was followed by a silver on the Gold Coast four years later.

The year of 2019 brought his second appearance at a Worlds event, a 13th-placed finish in the 1500m and 17th in the 400m coming three months after he claimed both of those titles at the British Championships. 

As well as securing 1500m Freestyle silver, Jervis also raced the 400m Freestyle at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018, narrowly missing out on the podium to finish fourth. This followed on from a gold and bronze in the 1500m and 400m events respectively at the British Championships that March. 

Illness, though, meant Jervis had to withdraw from his events at the European Championships later that year. 

The 2017 World Championships in Budapest provided a first Worlds outing for the City of Swansea Aquatics athlete, and he registered a top-20 finish in the 1500m Freestyle after claiming the British title over that distance at the national championships. 

Jervis' debut to the senior international scene for Britain came at the European Championships in London in 2016. He competed in two events, the Men's 800m and 1500m Freestyle, in front of a home crowd at the London Aquatics Centre.

In 2014, he came away from the Glasgow Commonwealth Games a bronze medallist for Wales after he placed third in the 1500m Freestyle on his debut at that level.