Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson has announced his retirement from a competitive swimming career that also saw him win two Commonwealth Games silver medals.
Jamieson started out with Scotia Swimming Club before moving to City of Glasgow and the Glasgow School of Sport. He moved to the City of Edinburgh programme before settling into the national programme in Bath where he was coached by Dave McNulty.
Jamieson burst onto the scene, while representing Scotland at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, and won silver in the 200m breaststroke. Two years later at the London Olympics he produced the race of his life to win silver in the same event, pushing gold medallist Daniel Gyurta (Hungary) to a world record.
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games he again won silver in the 200m breaststroke event and his international record is completed with silver at the World Short Course Championships in 2012 as well as a silver and bronze at European Short Course Championships in 2013 and 2011 respectively.
British Swimming National Performance Director Chris Spice said: "Michael has had an outstanding swimming career and was a beacon for the sport after his successes in 2012.
“He has won medals at every level of the sport and trained with incredible attention to detail and intensity over many years. He was rewarded for all these efforts with a brilliant silver medal in London 2012 at his home Olympics, the best performance from a British swimmer.
“He was a fantastic role model for all those young athletes that trained with and around him at our National Centre in Bath and his local clubs in Scotland.
“Michael was also a great competitor with a huge amount of professionalism in all that he did. He leaves behind a strong legacy of training and determination that has inspired many athletes, coaches and swimmers alike. On behalf of everyone at British Swimming we wish him all the very best for the future.”