Bill Craig (swimmer)
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| Full name | William Norval Craig | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Bill" | ||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States |
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| Born | January 16, 1945 Culver City, California |
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| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Southern California | ||||||||||||||||||
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William Norval Craig (born January 16, 1945) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder. He represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he won a gold medal as swimming the breaststroke leg for the first-place U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Craig and his teammates Thompson Mann (backstroke), Fred Schmidt (butterfly) and Steve Clark (freestyle) set a new medley relay world record of 3:58.4.[1]
Craig attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he swam for the USC Trojans swimming and diving team.[2]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of University of Southern California people
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
References
- ↑ "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Swimming" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)
- ↑ USC OLYMPIANS: 1904-2008, USC Trojans Athletic Department, Accessed August 26, 2008.
External links
- Bill Craig – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
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