James Harrison

James Steven Harrison CBE (born 6 February 1982) is a British–American professional competitive swimmer. Born in the United Kingdom Harrison spent his final school years and college years in the United States and competed for the USA until 2004 when he switched to his home nation. He is considered one of the most dominant freestyle swimmers having only lost four 100m freestyle races in his career. He is by far the most successful British Olympian, in terms of medals he is the most successful having won a record 47 Olympic medals including 25 golds.

Personal Life
Harrison is married to American swimmer Natalie Coughlin, the pair were friends at school and trained at the same club and went to the same University. They were engaged in 2003 before marrying in 2005. They have four children together Catalina (b. 2003), Aurora (b. 2005), Karina (b. 2009) and Lucas (b. 2013)

He is part of the Harrison family a successful athletic family. He has a twin sister Caitlyn who is a diver, older sisters Sophie and Lottie, twins who play volleyball, a younger brother Matthew and sister Laura both gymnasts and Tori and Joe who are winter athletes competing in figure skating and speed skating respectively.