![]() His strong friendship with Becky Adlington and her former husband, Harry Needs, meant that they asked him to be godfather to their daughter. He trained alongside the formidable Olympic champion Adam Peaty, his close friend, for many years in the GB squad. Gunning asked to do this interview as a way of announcing his retirement. It’s only in recent years that I’m proud to say I’m a swimmer.” Sometimes I just wanted to be a straight white swimmer who had only the pressure of competing because, when I went to competitions, people often said: ‘You must be a runner.’ I said: ‘Yeah.’ It was too much hassle to say I’m a swimmer and they’d go: ‘Well, how?’ That conversation would bring me down and I always want to be up. I should do something black people would succeed at, like athletics. “At school there weren’t many mixed-race people,” Gunning says, “and I had lots of voices telling me black people can’t swim. ![]() Michael Gunning competes for Jamaica in the men’s 200m butterfly heats at the 2017 world championships in Budapest.
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