Andrew Bree

Who is Andrew Bree?

Andrew Patrick Bree is a breaststroke swimmer from Helen's Bay, County Down Northern Ireland. He is a 2-time Irish Olympian, having swum at the 2000 and 2008 Olympics.

He became the first Irish person to win a medal at the European Short Course Swimming Championships when he finished second in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2003 Championships at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin, Ireland. His Irish club is Ards, but as of 2008 he trains in at the University of Tennessee.

After swimming at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney; Bree failed to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. However, he qualified for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. There he equaled the 200 m LC breaststroke record and placed fifth.

In the months leading up to the 2008 Olympics he tested positive at a drug test. Bree claimed that he had used a nasal spray and did not know it contained banned substances. The results of the drug test were later overturned and he was allowed swim at the Beijing Olympics.