Please answer the following question: Danyon Joseph Loader ONZM (born 21 April 1975 in Timaru New Zealand) is an Olympic champion former World Record holding swimmer from New Zealand based in Dunedin. He remains the national record holder in the 400 and 1500 metre freestyle short course.He swam for New Zealand at two Summer Olympics (1992 1996) and three Commonwealth Games (1990 1994 and 1998).At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona he garnered a silver medal in the 200 metre butterfly. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete