JAN BIDRMAN

Jan Bidrman
Head Coach
Calgary Academy of Swimming Excellence 2006
University of Calgary National Swimming Centre since 1997

• University of Nebraska Graduate, Masters of Arts in Economics, 1995
• Swim coach for 14 years
• Olympian for Sweden, Seoul, South Korea, 1988 and Barcelona, Spain, 1992
• Head Coach of South African Olympic Team, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 1996
• Canadian Olympic Coach - Sydney, Australia, 2000 and Athens, 2004
• Canadian Coach - World Championships, Perth, Australia 1998, Fukuoka, Japan, 2001, Barcelona 2003, Montreal 2005

COACHED:

• Penny Heyns Olympic double gold medalist, 100 Breast and 200 Breast, Atlanta, 1996
  Olympic silver medalist, 100 Breaststroke, Sydney, 2000
  Fourteen times world recorder in breastroke events
  
• Curtis Myden Olympic bronze medalist, 400 IM, Sydney 2000
  World Championship silver medalist, 400 IM, Perth, Aus, 96
  
• Joanne Malar Olympic finalist, 200 IM and 400 IM, Sydney, 2000
  Commonwealth Games gold medalist, Kuala Lumpur 98
  
• Mike Brown World Championships silver medalist, 200 Breast, Montreal 05 Olympic finalist, 200 Breast, Athens, 04
  
• Morgan Knabe Olympic finalist, 100 Breast, Sydney, 2000
  World Championship finalist, Fukuoka, Japan, 01
  Commonwealth Games silver medalist, Manchester, GB, 02
  World Championships finalist, Barcelona, 03
  
• Chris Renaud Olympic finalist, 400 Medley Relay, Sydney, 2000
  
• Lauren VanOosten 2004 Olympian
  Pan-American Gold and Silver Medalist, Winnipeg, 99
  Commonwealth Games bronze medalist, Kuala Lumpur, 98
  
• Shamek Pietucha 2000 Olympian and Canadian record holder, 200 Butterfly
  
• Erin Gammel 2004 Olympian and Canadian record holder, 100 Back
  
• Rick Say Commonwealth Games bronze medalist, Manchester, GB 2002