Jeremy Bagshaw

Biography

Jeremy Bagshaw first got the chance to represent Canada at the 2009 Junior Pan Pacific Championships before gaining multi-sport games experience at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010 where he won the bronze medal in the 200m freestyle. That was Canada’s only medal in the boys’ swimming events.

Fourteen years after racing at the Youth Olympics, and in his fifth appearance at the Olympic Swimming Trials, Bagshaw finally earned a spot on his first Olympic team for Paris 2024 when he finished fourth in the men’s 200m freestyle. He had missed qualifying for Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 by extremely slim margins.

Bagshaw was part of Team Canada at the 2015 Pan Am Games where he helped Canada win bronze in the 4x200m freestyle relay while making the finals in the 200m and 400m freestyle events. He returned to the Pan Am Games at Santiago 2023, again winning a bronze medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay. He was a finalist in the 200m freestyle.

Bagshaw’s other multi-sport games experience includes two appearances at the Commonwealth Games in 2018 and 2022, as well as competing at the 2017 Summer Universiade. He came home from the 2022 Commonwealth Games with a bronze medal after swimming the preliminaries of the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay.

Bagshaw competed at four straight editions of the World Aquatics Championships from 2017 to 2022. He also competed at the short course World Swimming Championships (25m) in 2016.      

Bagshaw was a force on the NCAA circuit during his four years at the University of California – Berkeley where he specialized in distance freestyle events and helped the Golden Bears win men’s national titles in 2011, 2012 and 2014, finishing second in the 1650 yard freestyle at the latter.

A Little More About Jeremy

Getting into the Sport: At age 2 or 3 was “thrown” in the pool and just figured out how to swim… Competed in his first meet at age 4 but was more interested in looking at the swimmers in the other lanes than his own race… Outside Interests: Graduated from the University of California – Berkeley in 2015 (Bachelor of Arts in Integrative Biology)… Completed his medical degree at the University of Limerick in Ireland in 2024… Plans to become a general practitioner with a focus on sports medicine… Likes trying new food from different countries… Enjoys watching basketball and soccer… Odds and Ends: Personal motto: “Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever”… Nickname: Bugs… Born in his mother’s home country, Singapore; moved to Victoria at age 6 when his father decided he wanted to move back to Canada…