Matthew Sates

Matthew "Matt" Sates (born 28 July 2003)[2] is a South African swimmer. For the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup, Sates was the highest scoring male competitor from any country and earned a total of 18 medals including 13 gold medals. In addition to winning 18 medals, Sates set multiple world junior records over the course of the month-long World Cup. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in two individual events, placing highest in the 200 metre individual medley at 14th as well as placing 32nd in the 100 metre butterfly. He won the NCAA title in the 500 yard freestyle at the 2022 NCAA Championships.

Matthew Sates
Personal information
Full nameMatthew Sates
Nickname(s)Matt
National team South Africa
Born (2003-07-28) July 28, 2003
South Africa
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesButterfly, individual medley, freestyle
Club
Seals Swimming Club
Georgia Bulldogs
College teamUniversity of Georgia[1]
CoachWayne Riddin (Personal)
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  South Africa
Swimming World Cup
2021 Berlin 200 m freestyle
2021 Berlin 100 m medley
2021 Berlin 200 m medley
2021 Berlin 400 m medley
2021 Budapest 200 m freestyle
2021 Budapest 400 m freestyle
2021 Budapest 100 m medley
2021 Budapest 200 m medley
2021 Budapest 400 m medley
2021 Doha 400 m freestyle
2021 Doha 200 m medley
2021 Kazan 200 m freestyle
2021 Kazan 400 m freestyle
2021 Berlin 400 m freestyle
2021 Doha 200 m freestyle
2021 Doha 100 m medley
2021 Kazan 200 m medley
2021 Kazan 100 m medley
Representing the Georgia Bulldogs
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
NCAA Championships 1 1 1
Total 1 1 1
By race
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
200 y freestyle 0 0 1
500 y freestyle 1 0 0
4×200 y freestyle 0 1 0
Total 1 1 1
NCAA Championships
2022 Atlanta 500 y freestyle
2022 Atlanta 4×200 y freestyle
2022 Atlanta 200 y freestyle

Background and details

Sates was born on July 28, 2003 and lives in Pietermaritzburg in South Africa with his mother and sister.[2] He reportedly became a swimmer at a young age, when he followed his older brother Tim into swimming.[2] He has said of the sport, "Swimming has just always been a part of me."[3] He attended St. Charles College in Pietermaritzburg.[3]

He trains by Wayne Riddin at Seals Swimming Club in Pietermaritzburg and verbally committed to entering the University of Georgia in 2022 to train under Neil Versfeld,[3] a renowned South African Olympic swimmer and coach.[4] Competing for the Georgia Bulldogs during the 2021–2022 collegiate season, he won the NCAA title in the 500 yard freestyle in March 2022 before permanently relocating back to South Africa in April 2022 and becoming a professional swimmer.[5][6]

Career

2021

At the 2021 South African Grand Prix in Durban in May 2021, Sates achieved Olympic Games cuts for the 200 metre individual medley, 1:57.60 in the prelims heats, and 100 metre butterfly, 51.83 seconds in a time trial.[7]

2020 Summer Olympics
See also: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Sates competed in two events at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[8][9][10][11][12] He qualified to compete in the Olympics (delayed until July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) in May 2021[13] and was called "the next Michael Phelps" in the media leading up to the start of competition.[14] At the 2020 Olympic Games, Sates finished 14th in the 200 metre individual medley, just two places behind Chase Kalisz of the United States, and 32nd in the 100 metre butterfly.[15]

2021 Swimming World Cup

In the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup, which consisted of four competitions across two continents in the month of October 2021 and was conducted in short course metres, Sates was the overall highest scoring male competitor with a total of 227 points across all four stops that earned him $140,000 of prize money.[16][17] He also earned the most medals amongst all competitors, male or female, with a total of eighteen medals, which included thirteen gold medals, four silver medals, and one bronze medal.[18]

Sates set his first world junior record of the World Cup circuit at the first stop, in Berlin, Germany, with a time of 1:51.45 in the 200 metre individual medley on 2 October.[19][20] His swim also moved him to the eighth fastest swimmer in the event in history, just two spots and 31-hundredths of a second behind Caeleb Dressel of the United States.[21] The next day, Sates set his second world junior record of the World Cup circuit with a time of 1:40.65 in the 200 metre freestyle where he won the gold medal and finished less than two tenths of a second ahead of silver medalist in the event Kyle Chalmers of Australia.[22][23][24] These first two world junior records earned Sates the number two spot on Swimming World's "The Week That Was" honour for the week of 4 October 2021.[25] Four days later, on 7 October, at the second stop of the World Cup, held in Budapest, Hungary, Sates set his third world junior record, this time in the 400 metre freestyle with a time of 3:37.92.[26][27] Sates winning multiple medals, setting multiple world junior records, and winning the overall male title was ranked as the number one moment from the 2021 Swimming World Cup by FINA.[28]

2021 World Short Course Championships

Sates entered to compete in five individual events, the 200 metre freestyle, 400 metre freestyle, 100 metre individual medley, 200 metre individual medley, and 400 metre individual medley, for the 2021 World Short Course Championships at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.[29][30] Two days before the start of competition, Sates was announced as withdrawing from the championships due to travel restrictions making it hard for him to leave the country of South Africa due to a surge in a new variant of COVID-19.[31]

2022

On 21 January 2022, Sates arrived in Athens, Georgia in the United States to start competing collegiately as part of the Georgia Bulldogs at the University of Georgia with his first competition appearance scheduled for 29 January 2022.[1] In his first collegiate competition, a dual meet against Emory University on 29 January, Sates won the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:33.89.[32] He also swam a 4:31.29 in the 500 yard freestyle and a 1:49.23 in the 200 yard individual medley swimming exhibition.[33]

2022 Southeastern Conference Championships

In his first collegiate conference championships, the 2022 Southeastern Conference, SEC, Championships in February 2022, Sates swam a 1:31.82 for the lead-off leg of the 4×200 yard freestyle relay to help take second-place in 6:09.32 on day one.[34][35] His time of 1:31.82 ranked Sates as the fifth-fastest male freshman in the 200 yard freestyle in the history of the NCAA, behind Townley Haas, Dean Farris, Cameron Craig, and Drew Kibler.[36] In the prelims heats of the 500 yard freestyle on day two, Sates lowered his personal best time in the event by approximately 17 seconds to a 4:13.65 to rank third overall heading into the final.[37] For the final of the 500 yard freestyle, Sates set a new pool record in a time of 4:09.06 and placed first, finishing over one second ahead of second-place finisher Kieran Smith.[38] He qualified ranking first for the final of the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:32.59 in the prelims heats on day three.[39] In the final, he won with a time of 1:31.16, breaking the pool record of 1:31.65 set in 2013 and finishing 0.23 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Brooks Curry.[40] Day four of competition, Sates ranked third in the prelims heat of the 200 yard butterfly, qualifying for the final with a time of 1:41.91, which was 1.83 seconds behind first-ranked Luca Urlando.[41] In the final, he placed second with a 1:39.88, this time finishing 0.88 seconds behind Luca Urlando.[42][43] For the 4×100 yard medley relay later in the session, Sates and Luca Urlando were part of the same relay team, with Sates splitting a 46.03 for the butterfly leg of the relay to help finish fourth in 3:04.76.[43] The fifth and final day, he led-off the 4×100 yard freestyle relay in 42.71 to help achieve a time of 2:50.65 and a fourth-place finish.[44]

Following his performances at the SEC Championships, Sates swam the 400 yard individual medley in 3:41.85 and the 200 yard individual medley in 1:44.83 at the 2022 Bulldog Last Chance Meet in an attempt to see if he could qualify for the 2022 NCAA Championships in the events.[45]

2022 NCAA Championships
2022 NCAA Championships
500 yd freestyle 4:06.61 (CR)
4×200 yd freestyle 6:05.59
200 yd freestyle 1:30.72

Day one of the 2022 NCAA Championships in March, Sates opened the 4×200 yard freestyle with a 1:30.78 for the lead-off leg, helping achieve a final mark of 6:05.59 and a second-place finish.[46] The morning of day two, he ranked first in the prelims heats of the 500 yard freestyle with a time of 4:08.73, qualifying for the evening final.[47] He swam a 4:06.61 in the final, winning the event and setting new NCAA Championships and pool records.[48][49][50][5] On the third day, he advanced to the final of the 200 yard freestyle, ranking second behind Drew Kibler with a time of 1:31.11 from the prelims heats.[51][52] In the final, he won his second individual medal of the Championships, finishing third with a personal best time of 1:30.72.[53] For his second final of the session, he swam the 100 yard butterfly portion of the 4×100 yard medley relay in 46.39 seconds, contributing to a final time of 3:03.92 and twelfth-place finish.[54] On the fourth and final day, he swam a 1:43.34 and placed 29th in the 200 yard butterfly.[54] Concluding his first NCAA Championships, Sates swam a 42.90 for the third leg of the 4×100 yard freestyle relay to help place eleventh in a combined time of 2:48.81.[54]

2022 South Africa Championships

At the 2022 South Africa National Swimming Championships in Gqeberha in April, Sates qualified for the final of the 400 metre freestyle on day one with a time of 3:54.94 in the prelims heats.[55] In the evening finals session, he won the gold medal in the 400 metre freestyle with a 3:49.37 and the bronze medal in the 50 metre butterfly in a time of 24.28 seconds.[56][57] Day two, he swam a 1:47.09 in the prelims heats of the 200 metre freestyle to qualify for the evening final ranking first.[58] In the final he won the gold medal with a time of 1:46.15, which achieved him a qualifying time in the 200 metre freestyle for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games, and won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, swimming the lead-off leg for the relay team from KwaZulu-Natal.[59][60][61][62] It was his first time qualifying for a World Aquatics Championships and a Commonwealth Games.[63] The third day, he won the gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a personal best time of 48.97 seconds.[64][65] For the 100 metre butterfly on day four, he won the silver medal with a time of 52.06 seconds, finishing only behind Chad le Clos.[66][67] In the first prelims heat of the 200 metre individual medley on the sixth and final day, he swam a World Championships and Commonwealth Games qualifying time of 1:59.13 and qualified for the evening final, where he went on to lower his time to a 1:58.37 and win the gold medal.[68][69][70][71]

Personal best times
As of 8 April 2022

Long course metres (50 m pool)
Event Time Meet Location Date Age Ref
100 m freestyle 48.97 2022 SA National Swimming Championships Gqeberha 8 April 2022 18 [64]
200 m freestyle 1:46.15 2022 SA National Swimming Championships Gqeberha 7 April 2022 18 [59][61]
400 m freestyle 3:49.37 2022 SA National Swimming Championships Gqeberha 6 April 2022 18 [56][57]
100 m butterfly 51.83 tt 2021 South Africa Grand Prix No. 4 Durban 28 May 2021 17 [7]
200 m individual medley 1:57.60 h 2021 South Africa Grand Prix No. 4 Durban 28 May 2021 17 [7]

Legend: h – prelims heats; tt – time trial

Short course metres (25 m pool)
Event Time Meet Location Date Age Notes Ref
200 m freestyle 1:40.65 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany 3 October 2021 18 AF, NR, WJ [22]
400 m freestyle 3:37.92 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Budapest, Hungary 7 October 2021 18 WJ [26]
200 m individual medley 1:51.45 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany 2 October 2021 18 AF, CR, NR, WJ [19]
Legend: AF – African record; CR – Commonwealth record; NR – South African record; WJ – World Junior record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Short course yards (25 yd pool)
Event Time Meet Location Date Age Ref
100 yd freestyle 42.71 r 2022 Southeastern Conference Championships Knoxville, United States 19 February 2022 18 [44]
200 yd freestyle 1:30.72 2022 NCAA Championships Atlanta, United States 25 March 2022 18 [53]
500 yd freestyle 4:06.61 2022 NCAA Championships Atlanta, United States 24 March 2022 18 [48][49]
200 yd butterfly 1:39.88 2022 Southeastern Conference Championships Knoxville, United States 18 February 2022 18 [42][43]
200 yd individual medley 1:44.83 tt 2022 Bulldog Last Chance Meet Athens, United States 26 February 2022 18 [45]
400 yd individual medley 3:41.85 2022 Bulldog Last Chance Meet Athens, United States 26 February 2022 18 [45]

Legend: r – relay 1st leg; tt – time trial

Records

Short course metres (25 m pool)
No. Event Time Meet Location Date Age Status Ref
1 200 m individual medley 1:51.45 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany 2 October 2021 18 Current [19][20][21]
2 200 m freestyle 1:40.65 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany 3 October 2021 18 Current [22][23][24]
3 400 m freestyle 3:37.92 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Budapest, Hungary 7 October 2021 18 Current [26][27]

Short course metres (25 m pool)
No. Event Time Meet Location Date Type Status Notes Ref
1 200 m individual medley 1:51.45 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany 2 October 2021 AF, NR Current CR, WJ [19][20][21]
2 200 m freestyle 1:40.65 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany 3 October 2021 AF, NR Current WJ [22][23][24]
Legend: AF – African record; CR – Commonwealth record; NR – South African record; WJ – World Junior record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Awards and honours

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