Kieran will appear in his second Olympic Games in Paris after showing his form at the crucial Aquatics GB Swimming Championships.
He led home the Men's 400m Freestyle event and will become a two-time Olympian for Team GB, having set a hat-trick of new personal bests at the London Aquatics Centre to put himself back on a senior international British team.
Previous to that, Kieran completed a hat-trick of freestyle events at the British Swimming Championships 2022 with bronze medals in both the 400m and 800m Freestyle. Alongside his eighth place in the 200m Freestyle, he continued his domestic double medal-winning performance from last year’s British Swimming Selection Trials.
At his maiden Olympics in Tokyo, Bird competed in the 400m and 800m Freestyle, putting in very respectable performances in a distance freestyle field that continue to impress.
Bird - who trains under Jol Finck at the Bath National Centre - smashed his personal best in the Men's 400m Freestyle final to swim under the consideration time and ensure he will be competing in Tokyo, before going on to compete in both the 400m and 800m Freestyle events at May's European Championships in Budapest - his first senior international appearances in a British squad.
The Bicester-born athlete has already represented Team GB at junior level, competing in the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival as a butterfly swimmer. After turning his focus to freestyle, he was part of the British squad at the 2017 European Junior Championships in Israel.
