Jason Plummer

Who is Jason Plummer?

Jason Robert Plummer is a former Australian freestyle swimmer, who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Plummer was a member of the St. Peters Swim Club in Brisbane. At the 1985 National Championships he won silver in 400, 800 and 1500 metre freestyle finishing behind fellow Queenslander Michael Bruce McKenzie in all three events. He won the following year at the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games where he won his pet event the 1500m freestyle over McKenzie and Christopher Chalmers from Canada. He backed up his Commonwealth gold with a national title in 1987 in the 1500m also taking bronze in the 200 and 400 metre freestle. Later that year he won bronze in the 400 and 1500 at his home Pan Pacific Championships. At the Seoul Olympics he failed to quality for the final in 1500m and was part of the 4x200 freestyle relay team that finished fourth behind the US and East and West Germany.

At the age of 20, he moved to America where studied at Stanford University. He graduated in 1993 with Bachelor of Arts in psychology. He earned a MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998.