Eric Hedlin
Eric Hedlin in Irvine, California, at the US Open in August, 2013.
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| Nationality |
 Canada
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| Born |
April 18, 1993 Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 178 lb (81 kg; 12.7 st) |
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| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
| Club | Victoria Academy of Swimming |
Eric Hedlin (born April 18, 1993) is a Canadian long-distance swimmer from Victoria, British Columbia. Hedlin won a silver medal in the men's open water 5 km swim at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships.
Hedlin began his notable international career competing in Randy Bennett's Victoria Swim Academy that also includes major Canadian World and Olympic medalist Ryan Cochrane who is also a long distance swimmer. As a member of the Canadian swim team he won a bronze medal at the 2013 Summer Universiade in the men's 800 m freestyle.
Hedlin qualified for the 2013 World Aquatics Championships by finishing 16th at the FINA World Cup event in Cancun Mexico in April of that year. This put him into the 5 km race where he was in a dogfight with former World Champion Thomas Lurz and Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli. Hedlin said of the race that " “I am really happy, because I didn’t expect [to beat Lurz]. It felt pretty good. I was trying to hold a top position and stay in everyone’s draft. In the final sprint, Oussama was so much quicker than me, and I couldn’t do anything to beat him.” Hedlin was honored with Swimming Canada's 2013 People's Choice Race of the Year award for his performance in this race.
In April 2017, Hedlin was named to Canada's 2017 World Aquatics Championships team in Budapest, Hungary.
Although Hedlin was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he lived in San Diego, California from the age of a few months until he graduated from La Jolla High School. At that time he returned to Canada to train in swimming and to attend the University of Victoria.
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