Paul Kingsman is one of our greatest ever swimmers.

When he was 15, he qualified for the 1982 Commonwealth Games, making the 200 metres backstroke final in Brisbane. At the 1984 Olympics, he finished 10th in the 100 metres backstroke.

At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh he won silver in both the 100 and 200 metres backstroke, and in 1988 at the age of 21, he went to the Seoul Olympics as the 20th-fastest backstroker in the world over 200 metres.

He qualified for the final, raced in lane one and his time of 2 minutes point 48 seconds saw him win Olympic bronze by four-one-hundredths of a second.

Kingsman became NZ's first male Olympic medallist in an individual swimming event. He closed his career by taking a bronze and silver at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, and that same year he was awarded an MBE for services to swimming.

He currently lives in South Carolina where he is National Director of Practice Management for Ash Brokerage and also a motivational speaker. 

Radio Sport's Jason Pine caught up with Paul as a part of a "Where are They Now?" feature.