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Chris Walker-Hebborn (born 1st July 1990) is an English swimmer expected to compete for Team GB in 2012. He is currently based at the University of Bath, where he trains at one of British Swimming's Intensive Training Centres.

In March 2009, he qualified for his first senior World Championships after beating event favourite James Goddard in 200m backstroke at the British Championships, held in Sheffield.

Chris' preliminary heat performance in Rome secured him a place in the World's semi-finals where, as one of the few swimmers not wearing the controversial Jaked suit, he set a new British record to become a finalist. The record was to stand only briefly, as he broke it again in the finals (1:56.05), placing 9th.

Nicknamed Poppet, the teenager spent two years at the British Offshore Centre in Australia, from 2006 to 2008. He was offered a scholarship with a Florida university in January 2009 but returned to his Bury St Edmunds home after just a few weeks when the training regime proved not tough enough to meet his expectations.