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The Greatest Swimmer at the Olympic Games The best all-time overall performance in swimming at the Olympic Games is by USA swimmer Michael Phelps. His haul of 23 gold medals between 2004–2016 is the most out of all sports. The highest ranked female swimmer is Jenny Thompson, also from the US, with 12 medals including 8 gold.
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Kim Quotes “I have seen something of this world, she said over the trays, and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.”. ― Rudyard Kipling, Kim.
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Usain Bolt, Justin Gatlin win 100m heats Justin Gatlin was the fastest sprinter in first round of the 100m. Usain Bolt raced for the first at the 2016 Olympics and won his opening round 100m heat in 10.07 seconds. Bolt is attempting to become the first man to win three consecutive Olympic 100m gold medals.
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- Flash News about David Boudia. “I feel extremely bad about it — she didn’t have to do it — but she wanted me to be well.” The American diver David Boudia, who won a bronze in synchronized diving in the 2012 London Games, said that afterward he had been struck by a malaise that ...
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- Florida High School track athlete of the year. Vince won his first championship in shot put and the discus - Florida Class 4A state. Vince set the high school record in the shot put with a throw of 68 feet. In the discus event, he threw for 180 feet.
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List of University of Florida Olympians Swimmer Tim McKee was the first University of Florida alumnus to win an Olympic medal while he was still an undergraduate and a current member of a Florida Gators varsity sports team. McKee won silver medals in the 200- and 400-meter individual medley events.
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Matt Grevers Matt Grevers. Matthew Grevers (born March 26, 1985) is an American competition swimmer who competes in the backstroke and freestyle events, and is a six-time Olympic medalist. He has won a total of thirty-three medals in major international competition, fourteen gold, twelve silver, and seven bronze spanning the Olympics, World Championships, and the Universiade.
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Message Sent: 21 and Counting for Michael Phelps Replay: How Michael Phelps Won the Men's 200-Meter Butterfly . Michael Phelps won his 20th gold medal on Tuesday night.
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Is This New Swim Stroke the Fastest Yet? After my failed attempt at the YMCA, I reach out to Misty Hyman, who won gold in the 2000 Olympics using the fish kick in the underwater portion of her race, and is now an assistant coach at Arizona State University. She agrees to give me a lesson at an indoor pool in New Jersey, where she is leading a swim clinic.
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Grant Hackett He also won a bronze medal in the 400m freestyle. At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, he won a bronze medal for swimming in the heats of the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, thereby winning his first international medal since the 2008 Olympics.ntering the Sydney Olympics in 2000, Hackett was the overwhelming favourite in the 1500 m freestyle, and was also expected to help Thorpe take a quinella in the 200 m and 400 m events.
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64-year-old woman becomes first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage 64-year-old woman becomes first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad succeeds on fifth attempt at crossing after she first tried in 1978.
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Usain Bolt awards and honors. Usain Bolt, in full Usain St. Leo Bolt (born August 21, 1986, Montego Bay, Jamaica), Jamaican sprinter who won gold medals in the 100-metre and 200-metre races in an unprecedented three straight Olympic Games and is widely considered the greatest sprinter of all time.
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Owens wins 4th gold medal A+E Networks. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, African American track star Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal of the Games in the 4×100-meter relay.His relay team set a new world record of 39.8 seconds, which held for 20 years.ith his four gold medals, Jesse Owens was the star of the Berlin Olympics. He equaled the world record (10.3 seconds) in the 100-meter race and broke the world records in the 200-meter race (20.7 seconds) and in the broad jump (26 feet 5 3/8 inches).
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Katie Ledecky On the fifth day of competition, Ledecky, with Missy Franklin, Leah Smith, and Katie McLaughlin won gold in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Swimming the anchor leg, Ledecky recorded a split of 1:55.64 and the Americans finished with an aggregate time of 7:45.37.
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- On this day in 1996, sprinter Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 200 meters to win gold at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Three days earlier, Johnson had also won the 400 meters, making him the first man in history to win both events at the Olympics. Four years...
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US swimmer Diana Nyad, 64, makes Cuba-Florida crossing Media caption Diana Nyad: You are never too old to chase your dreams. Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad has become the first person to swim from Cuba to the US without a shark cage. After about 53 hours' non-stop swimming, the 64-year-old American reached Key West, Florida, escorted by boats and her team of 35 people.
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Top Olympic Medal Winners Phelps has the Most Total Medals. Here is the list of the top 10 athletes (males and females) with the most medals in total (includes all gold, silver and bronze medals won), from all summer Olympic Games (including 2016). American swimmer Michael Phelps is the clear winner, with the highest ranked female being gymnast Larisa Latynina.
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Michael Phelps: Greatest Olympian Ever (Who Also Happened to Smoke Pot) News outlets across the world are reporting about Olympic swimmer, Michael Phelps’ feat of breaking the record for the most medals ever won by an Olympian. On Tuesday night he won his record nineteenth career Olympic medal.But the road to being the world’s greatest swimmer did not come easy. In February of 2009, 23 year-old Michael Phelps apologized for his youthful indiscretion when he was caught on camera at a party smoking a bong that allegedly contained marijuana.The party took place three months after the Olympics while he was taking a break from training after he had won 8 gold medals.ews outlets across the world are reporting about Olympic swimmer, Michael Phelps’ feat of breaking the record for the most medals ever won by an Olympian. On Tuesday night he won his record nineteenth career Olympic medal.
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Johnny Weissmuller Dies at 79; Movie Tarzan and Olympic Gold Medalist Man of Two Careers. Few of the millions of Tarzan lovers who thrilled to Mr. Weissmuller swooping from tree to tree or locking in lethal combat with lions or crocodiles ever knew him as the swimming phenomenon who won five Olympic gold medals and set 67 world records in the 1920's.
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Johnny Weissmuller Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won 52 US National Championships and set 67 world records. Weissmuller understood the potential role that athletic competition could play in the world.
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- Gertrude Ederle, who was called ''America's best girl'' by President Calvin Coolidge in 1926 after she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, died yesterday at a nursing home in Wyckoff, N.J. She was 98.
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Three facts you didnât know about the Usain Bolt-Justin Gatlin rivalry Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin have been the faces of Olympic sprinting for more than a decade. Gatlin was the 2004 Olympic 100m champion. Then Bolt won a combined six sprinting gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Games. “When you think about track and field, you think about Gatlin and Bolt,” Gatlin said.
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- Did You Know? Has won six swimming medals for Australia across three Olympics, including five as part of freestyle relay and medley relay teams and a silver medal in the 100 metres butterfly at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.elebrate IMDb's 25th Anniversary with Photos We Love IMDb turns 25 on October 17! To celebrate, we put together a gallery of some of our favorite movie, TV, and event photos from the last 25 years. See the Photos We Love.
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Olympic swimming: Indiana's Lilly King wins gold in 100M breaststroke Olympic swimming: Indiana's Lilly King wins gold in 100M breaststroke. RIO DE JANEIRO – Indiana University sophomore swimmer Lilly King won the gold medal in the women's 100-meter breaststroke with an Olympic record time on Monday night at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.
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Biography Has won six swimming medals for Australia across three Olympics, including five as part of freestyle relay and medley relay teams and a silver medal in the 100 metres butterfly at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.Daughter Stella, born 27 January 2006.as won six swimming medals for Australia across three Olympics, including five as part of freestyle relay and medley relay teams and a silver medal in the 100 metres butterfly at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Daughter Stella, born 27 January 2006.
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Mark Spitz He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, an achievement surpassed only by Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Spitz set new world records in all seven events in which he competed in 1972, a record that still stands.Since the year 1900, no other swimmer has gained so great a percentage of all the medals awarded for Olympic events held in a single Games.efore he was 10, Spitz held 17 national age-group records, and one world record. At 14 his family moved to Santa Clara so Spitz could train with coach George F. Haines of the Santa Clara Swim Club. From 1964 to 1968 Mark trained with Haines at SCHS and Santa Clara High School.