Rahiti De Vos

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Born11 January 1996[1] (age 27)
Rahiti De Vos
Personal information
Born11 January 1996[1] (age 27)
Sport
Country French Polynesia
SportSwimming
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Tahiti
Pacific Games
Gold medal – first place2019 Apia400m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2019 Apia1500m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2019 Apia5km open water
Silver medal – second place2019 Apia200m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2019 Apia4 × 100m freestyle relay
Silver medal – second place2019 Apia4 × 200m freestyle relay
Silver medal – second place2019 Apia4 × 100m medley relay
Gold medal – first place2015 Port Moresby200m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2015 Port Moresby400m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2015 Port Moresby1500m freestyle
Gold medal – first place2015 Port Moresby200m butterfly
Gold medal – first place2015 Port Moresby4 × 100m freestyle relay
Gold medal – first place2015 Port Moresby4 × 200m freestyle relay
Silver medal – second place2015 Port Moresby3km open water
Bronze medal – third place2015 Port Moresby100m butterfly

Rahiti De Vos (born 11 January 1996) is a French swimmer who has represented French Polynesia at the Pacific Games and France at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Beijing, and at the FINA Swimming World Cup in Dubai and Qatar.[2]

De Vos was born in Tahiti, French Polynesia and educated at Lycée Don Bosco.[3] He relocated to France at the age of 15 to join Font-Romeu National Altitude Training Centre, where he won the youth national championships.[4] In 2016 he won a scholarship to study and swim at the University of Utah, where he studied information systems.[5]

At the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, he won gold in 6 events including the 400m freestyle, 1500m freestyle,[6] 200m freestyle, 200m butterfly, 4 × 100m freestyle relay,[7] 4 × 200m freestyle relay, and bronze in the 100m butterfly.[8]

At the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia he won gold in the open water swim,[9][10] 400m freestyle,[11] and the 1500m freestyle, breaking the Pacific Games record in the latter.[12] He also won silver in the 200m freestyle and 4 × 100 m relay events.[13]

In March 2020 he qualified for the National Collegiate Athletic Association division 1 swimming championships.[14][15]

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