David Dunford

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the 50 and 100 metre freestyle.

At the 2009 Summer Universiade he reached the 50 metres freestyle final, finishing sixth. At the 2009 World Championships he reached the semifinals in the 50m freestyle.

He competed in the 2008 FINA Short Course World Championships in Manchester in April 2008 and reached the 50m and 100m freestyle semifinals, finishing 12th in both races.

David Dunford competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In the 50 metres freestyle race, he finished 20th overall in heats and missed the semifinals by only 0.12 seconds. He did not compete in the 2008 African Swimming Championships due to his studies.

In 2007 he participated in the World Championships and All-Africa Games.

At the 2006 Short Course World Championships in Shanghai he reached the 200 metres backstroke final, finishing 8th. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, he participated in several races, his best result being reaching a final and finishing 7th at 50 metre freestyle. Later that year, at the 2006 African Swimming Championships he won the 100 metres and 200 metres backstroke, becoming the first Kenyan African Champion alongside his brother Jason. David Dunford was selected as the Most Promising Sportsman in Kenya in 2006.

His first major senior competition was the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, but the young swimmer failed to advance heats.

David Harvey Dunford (born 29 September 1988) is a swimmer from Kenya who specializes in sprint freestyle. He is an African champion, Commonwealth Games finalist and the second Kenyan swimmer in history to qualify for the Olympic Games (the first was his older brother Jason Dunford).