Byron MacDonald
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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. 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 —including most recently, a women's and men's team competition sweep of the 2015-2016 national titles. 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.