Two-Time Olympian Joe Litchfield Calls Time On His Career

Two-Time Olympian Joe Litchfield Calls Time On His Career

Two-time Olympian Joe Litchfield has retired from competitors following a profession through which he gained world and European relay titles.

The 27-year-old, who was coached by Dave Hemmings at Loughborough, leaves the pool 10 years after being topped 200IM champion on the 2016 European Junior Championships in Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary.

He would go on to compete on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 within the 200IM and 4x100m freestyle relay and made his second Games look in Paris three years in a while the fly leg within the prelims of the blended and males’s medley relays.

He swam the heats of the blended 4×2 free and medley relays on the European Championships in Budapest in 2021 the place the British quartets would go on to win gold and likewise claimed silver as a prelim swimmer within the males’s 4×100 free.

At the World Championships within the Hungarian capital a yr later, Litchfield swam the penultimate leg as Great Britain gained 4×2 bronze.

He led off in prelims on the Fukuoka worlds a yr later because the British quartet went on to win gold.

Litchfield – the youthful brother of Max Litchfield – additionally gained double relay silver with Team England on the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Tagging his location as Freedom, Litchfield mentioned on social media:

“After 20+ years of every day baths disguised as coaching periods, everlasting goggle marks and virtually all the time having a blocked nostril, the time has come for me to retire from swimming.

“It’s laborious to clarify in a single quick put up what this sport has given me. From competing for my nation on the Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth stage, to changing into World and European Champion, swimming has taken me additional than I ever might have imagined. More importantly, it’s launched me to unimaginable folks, lifelong pals and recollections that I’ll carry with me perpetually.

“Thank you to each coach, teammate, member of workers and sponsor who helped and supported me all through the years. I’ve been extremely fortunate to share this journey with all of you unimaginable folks.

“An enormous thanks to my household, as a result of with out them none of this is able to ever have been potential. To my dad and mom for the countless early mornings, put up evening shift choose ups, the fixed assist, and the numerous journeys to coaching.

“And to my spouse, thanks for placing up with the new pool balconies, the fixed tiredness, the countless routine, and the protein-induced 💨. Your assist by means of all of it has meant all the pieces to me.

“I’m excited for what the longer term holds subsequent. Swimming will all the time be an enormous a part of my life, and I’ll perpetually be pleased about all the pieces this sport has given me.

“Thank you 💙”