The author the "Breaking the Surface" won Summer Olympic gold medals in which years?
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Breaking the Surface Breaking the Surface is a best-selling book by Greg Louganis, co-written with Eric Marcus published in 1996. The book spent five weeks at number one on the "New York Times" Best Seller list.
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Greg Louganis Gregory Efthimios "Greg" Louganis ( ; born January 29, 1960) is an American Olympic diver, LGBT activist, and author who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics, on both the springboard and platform. He is the only male and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games. He has been called both "the greatest American diver" and "probably the greatest diver in history".
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Tyler Clary Scott Tyler Clary (born March 12, 1989) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. In his Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Clary won gold in the 200-meter backstroke in Olympic record time. In total, he won sixteen medals in major international competitions: three gold, eight silver, and five bronze spanning the Summer Olympics, the FINA World Championships, the Pan Pacific Championships, and the Pan American Games.
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George DiCarlo George Thomas DiCarlo (born July 13, 1963) is an American former competition swimmer who won the gold medal and broke the Olympic record in the men's 400-meter freestyle event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. At the 1984 Olympics, he also won the silver medal in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle.
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Lauren Meece Lauren Meece (born 6 February 1983) is an American former judoka who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics. In an editorial about LGBT Olympians being out at the Olympics she stated that athletes should be allowed to focus on their sports goals without having to be role models. She came out after her competition.
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Jacqueline Ross Jacqueline Mattox ("nee" Ross; born 26 September 1969) is a Vincentian athlete, who was the first female to compete at Summer Olympics for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, she was the first Vincentian female to win a gold medal at the CARIFTA Games and also the first Vincentian female recipient of an athletics scholarship.
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John Monckton (swimmer) John James Monckton (28 October 1938 – 29 June 2017) was an Australian backstroke swimmer who won a silver medal in the 100-metre event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Although he set multiple world records, he never won an Olympic gold medal.
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Tiffany Cohen Tiffany Lisa Cohen (born June 11, 1966) is an American former swimmer who was a double gold medalist at the 1984 Summer Olympics (400-meter and 800-meter freestyle).
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Nicole Freedman Nicole Freedman (born May 21, 1972) is an American Olympic cyclist.
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Jon Drummond Jonathan "Jon" A. Drummond (born September 9, 1968) is an American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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Amy Van Dyken Amy Deloris Van Dyken (born February 15, 1973) is an American former competitive swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder, and national radio sports talk show co-host. She has won six Olympic gold medals in her career, four of which she won at the 1996 Summer Olympics, making her the first American woman to accomplish such a feat and the most successful athlete at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She won gold in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly, 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and 4×100-meter medley relay.
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Laura Wilkinson Laura Ann Wilkinson (born November 17, 1977 in Houston, Texas) is a former American diver and Olympic gold medalist.
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Valerie Brisco-Hooks Valerie Ann Brisco-Hooks (born July 6, 1960 in Greenwood, Mississippi) won three gold medals as an Olympic track and field athlete at the 1984 Olympics at Los Angeles, California, making her the first Olympian to win gold medals in both the 200- and 400-meter races at a single Olympics.
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Megan Jendrick Megan Jendrick (born January 15, 1984), née Megan M. Quann, is an American former competition swimmer, former world record-holder, and fitness columnist. She won two gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Jendrick set 27 American records and four world records in her swimming career. She is a 13-time national champion, ten-time U.S. Open champion, seven-time masters world record-holder, and fifteen-time U.S. Masters national record-holder. Jendrick is married to American author Nathan Jendrick.
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Tracy Caulkins Tracy Anne Stockwell, OAM, (born January 11, 1963), née Tracy Anne Caulkins, is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time world champion, and former world record-holder in three events.
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Peter Snell Sir Peter George Snell {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 17 December 1938) is a New Zealand former middle-distance runner. He won three Olympic gold medals, and is the only male since 1920 to win the 800 and 1500 metres at the same Olympics, in 1964.
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Sarah Ryan Sarah Michelle Ryan, OAM (born 20 February 1977) is an Australian former sprint freestyle swimmer, who won relay medals at three consecutive Olympics from the 1996 Summer Olympics to the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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Susie Atwood Susanne Jean Atwood (born June 5, 1953) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder in two events.
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Susan Lee Susan Lee (born 7 June 1966) is an Australian rowing coxswain. She coxed the women's four to a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. It was Australia's first Olympic medal in women's rowing.
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Krisztina Egerszegi Krisztina Egerszegi (] ; born 16 August 1974) is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era. She is a three-time Olympian (1988, 1992 and 1996) and five time Olympic champion; and one of three individuals (Dawn Fraser and Michael Phelps being the other two) to have ever won the same swimming event at three consecutive Summer Olympics. She is the most successful and greatest individual female swimmer ever, having won five individual Olympic gold medals, the only female swimmer to do so. Katie Ledecky of the United States matched her total of 5 Olympic gold medals, winning 1 individual gold in London 2012, 3 individual ones and one team gold in Rio in 2016.
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Tim Shaw (swimmer) Timothy Andrew Shaw (born November 8, 1957) is an American former Olympic medal-winning swimmer and water polo player. He swam at the 1976 Summer Olympics and played on the USA's team at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is one of a handful of athletes to win Olympic medals in two different sports. He was named World Swimmer of the Year in 1974 and 1975 by "Swimming World Magazine".
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Jennifer Hooker Jennifer Leigh Hooker (born June 6, 1961), also known by her married name Jennifer Brinegar, is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec. She competed in the women's 200-meter freestyle, and finished sixth in the final with a time of 2:04.20. She also swam for the gold medal-winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, but did not receive a medal. Under the Olympic swimming rules in effect in 1976, only those relay swimmers who competed in the event final were medal-eligible.