Name: Cody Bureau
Sport: Swimming
Event(s): 50m Free, 100m Back, 100m Breast, 200m IM
Classification: S9, SB9, SM9
Height: 6-0
Weight: 160
DOB: 6/4/1988
Birthplace: Latrobe, Pa.
Hometown: Latrobe, Pa.
High School: Greater Latrobe High School (Latrobe, Pa.), ’06
College: Westmoreland Community College, X-Ray Technologies
Team/Club: H2okie Aquatics
Paralympic Experience
- Four-time Paralympian (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016); One-time medalist (1 bronze)
- Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, 6th (200m IM, 34 pt. 4x100m free relay, 34 pt. 4x100m medley relay)
- London 2012 Paralympic Games: 7th (200m IM)
- Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games: bronze (200m IM), 5th (100m back), 6th (100m fly, 34 pt. 4x100 free), 7th (34 pt. 4x100m medley, 100m free), 11th (50m free)
- Athens 2004 Paralympic Games: 5th (200m IM), 7th (34 pt. 4x100m medley), 9th (100m fly)
- Joins Jessica Long and Rudy Garcia-Tolson as the only members of the U.S. Paralympic Swimming Team to compete in four Paralympic Games (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2015 – 5th (200m IM, 100m back), 6th (34 pt. 4x100m medley)
- Years of Participation: 2010, 2013, 2015
- Top Finish: 5th – 2010 (34 pt. 4x100m free), 2015 (200m IM, 100m back)
Personal:
Bureau took up para-swimming at age 11. A hospital in his hometown of Pittsburgh encouraged him to try a swimming program for children with an impairment. He lost his left hand in a farming accident in 1996. He trains in the pool for two hours every day except Sunday. Three days a week, he lifts weights and has a second swimming session....Son of Marjorie and William Bureau…Has two sisters, Brittany and Heather, and one brother, Luke…Both sisters swam to a top-12 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference…Luke swam competitively for Virginia Tech University…Hobbies include many outdoor activities: hiking, fishing, water sports, boating, off-roading and shooting… He won the Frank Fuhrer Outstanding Performance Award for the Pittsburgh region in 2006.
