Jon Rudd

High Performance Director (Swimming)

Jon Rudd is High Performance Director for swimming at the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee in close partnership with the Saudi Swimming Federation, taking up the role in June 2025. Originally from Hull in Yorkshire, he holds a doctorate in psychology and has spent more than thirty years in coaching, directly coaching three world records along with European and Commonwealth records, and building the Plymouth Leander and Plymouth College programmes into one of the leading forces in European swimming. He led performance at Swim Ireland for eight years from 2017, the most successful period in Irish swimming, with the team returning from the Paris Olympic Games with three medals and Daniel Wiffen delivering the country's first world, Olympic and European records. He has been elected President of the World Swimming Coaches Association.