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Swimming At The 1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics were held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 26 events in swimming were contested. There was a total of 471 participants from 51 countries competing. Events Participating nations 471 swimmers from 51 nations competed. Medal table Medal summary Men's events Women's events Gallery of the medalists Some of the Olympic medalists in Montreal: File:John Naber 2016.jpg, John Naber, winner of the 100-metre backstroke, 200-metre backstroke, 4×200-metre freestyle relay, and 4×100-metre medley relay. File:Jim Montgomery (swimmer).jpg, Jim Montgomery, winner of the 100-metre freestyle, 4×200-metre freestyle relay, and 4×100-metre medley relay. File:Mike Bruner 1976 Olympics.jpg, Mike Bruner, winner of the 200-metre butterfly and 4×200-metre freestyle relay. File:John Hencken c1974.jpg, John Hencken, winner of the 100-metre breaststroke and 4×100-metre medley relay. File:Kornelia Ender 1973.jpg, Kornelia Ender, winner of the 100-metre freestyle, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal Olympic Pool
The Montreal Olympic Pool was constructed for the 1976 Summer Olympics as part of the Montreal Olympic Park. The Olympic Pool is part of the larger swimming centre, located in the base of the inclined Montreal Tower. The centre has a spectator capacity of 3,012 seats. At the 1976 Olympics, the venue hosted Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics, swimming, Diving at the 1976 Summer Olympics, diving, Water polo at the 1976 Summer Olympics, water polo, and the swimming part of the Modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics, modern pentathlon events. It had a capacity of 10,000 seats at the time (6,988 temporary seats were installed). The building was designed by French architect Roger Taillibert, who also designed the Olympic Stadium (Montreal), Olympic Stadium and Olympic Village (Montreal), Olympic Village. The structure, along with the accompanying Montreal Biodome, velodrome, inspired Taillibert's later designs for Luxembourg's D'Coque, National Sports and Culture Centre. Outs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Rocca
Peter Drake Rocca (born July 27, 1957) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. Rocca broke onto the international swimming scene winning two gold medals in the men's backstroke events (100-meter backstroke, 4×100-meter medley relay) at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City. Peter participated at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, where he claimed two silver medals in the men's backstroke events (100 and 200-meter), and a gold medal swimming in the preliminaries of the men's 4 x 100 Medley relay. Rocca continued to swim after the Montreal Olympics—two years later he won the silver medal in the men's 100-meter backstroke event at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships in Berlin, Germany. The next year, he again represented the United States at the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, winning the 200-meter backstroke. In 1980, Rocca qualified for the Olympic team in both the 100-meter and 200-mete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Strachan
Rodney Strachan (born October 16, 1955) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, where he received a gold medal in the 400-meter individual medley event."1976 Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Swimming" – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on May 2, 2008) He received a silver medal in the same event at the |
Bill Forrester
William Ronald Forrester Jr. (born December 18, 1957) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. He represented the United States as an 18-year-old at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, where he won a bronze medal in the 200-meter butterfly, finishing behind U.S. teammates Mike Bruner and Steve Gregg. Forrester won three gold and two bronze medals at the world championships in 1975 and 1978. Forrester graduated from Auburn University in 1980 and later worked as a swim coach, founding the Georgia Coastal Aquatic Team in 1994. See also * List of Auburn University people * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) * List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men) * World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Gregg
Steven Garrett Gregg (born November 3, 1955) is an American former competition swimmer. He won silver medals in the 200 m butterfly event at the 1976 Olympics, 1975 Pan American Games, and 1973 and 1978 world championships. After graduating from North Carolina State University, he defended a PhD in exercise biochemistry and physiology at University of California, Berkeley, and eventually settled in Chicago area with his family. See also * List of North Carolina State University people * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) * List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men) This is the complete list of men's World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming from 1973 to 2022. Medalists Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of victories in corresponding disciplines. 50 metre freestyle *Medals: 100 metre ... References 1955 births Living people American male butterfly swimmers NC State Wolfpack men's swimmers Olympic silver medalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Bruner
Michael Lee Bruner (born July 23, 1956) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events. At the 1976 Olympics he won gold medals in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay and in the 200-meter butterfly, setting a world record."1976 Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Swimming" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on May 2, 2008) Two years later he won the 1978 World Championships in the 200 m butterfly. During his career Bruner set two world records: in the 200-meter butterfly (1:59.23) and in relay. '' Swimming World Magazine'' named Bruner its American swimmer of the year in 1980. He was inducted into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Hall, Sr
Gary may refer to: *Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name *Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary Places ;Iran * Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province ;United States *Gary (Tampa), Florida * Gary, Maryland *Gary, Minnesota *Gary, South Dakota *Gary, West Virginia * Gary – New Duluth, a neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota *Gary Air Force Base, San Marcos, Texas * Gary City, Texas Ships * USS ''Gary'' (DE-61), a destroyer escort launched in 1943 * USS ''Gary'' (CL-147), scheduled to be a light cruiser, but canceled prior to construction in 1945 * USS ''Gary'' (FFG-51), a frigate, commissioned in 1984 * USS ''Thomas J. Gary'' (DE-326), a destroyer escort commissioned in 1943 People and fictional characters * Gary (surname), including a list of people with the name *Gary (rapper), South Korean rapper and entertainer * Gary (Argentine singer), Argentine singer of cuarteto songs Other uses *'' G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Bottom
Joseph Stuart Bottom (born April 18, 1955) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, and former world record-holder in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly and 4×100-meter freestyle relay. Born in Akron, Ohio, Bottom moved with his family at age 11 to Santa Clara, California, where he was a member of the Santa Clara Swim Club under noted swim coach George Haines.Santa Clara High School Reunion Event to Include Multiple Classes Business Wire, March 19, 2008, Accessed August 13, 2008. He attended Santa Clara High School (Santa Clara, California), Santa Clara High School, where he contributed to the Panthers numerous California Interscholastic Federation – Central Coast Section champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Vogel (swimmer)
Matthew Haynes Vogel (born June 3, 1957) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal where he received gold medals in the 100-meter butterfly, and the 4×100-meter medley relay."1976 Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Swimming" – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on May 2, 2008) Vogel set one world record during his career, in 4×100-meter medley relay. Vogel was formerly the head coach of Coastal Maine Aquatics in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Before coaching at CMA he was the head coach of Fort Wayne Aquatics, and prior to that he head coached the Canoe City Swim Club in |
Rick Colella
Richard Phillip Colella, Jr. (born December 14, 1951) is an American former breaststroke swimmer who represented the United States at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972. Colella's sister Lynn was also an Olympic swimmer. In 1971 Richard and Lynn won the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' Man of the Year award. Colella finished fourth in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, he finished third and received the bronze medal in the 200-meter breaststroke, his signature event. Colella and his wife Terry have raised four children, Elise, Mariel, Brian and Angie. For the past seven years, the Colellas have dedicated themselves to raising money for research to find a cure for facioscapulohumeral disease (FSHD), a common form of muscular dystrophy that affects their son Brian. They formed FSH Friends, an organization that they run out of their home. They work to ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvydas Juozaitis
Arvydas Juozaitis (born 18 April 1956 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian writer, philosopher, politician, cultural worker and former swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 100 meter breaststroke at the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1988, he was a member of the Sąjūdis Initiative Group. He was registered as a candidate for 2019 Lithuanian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Lithuania on 12 May 2019, with a second round held on 26 May 2019. Due to a constitutional limit of two terms in office, incumbent president Dalia Grybauskaitė was unable to run, having won the 2009 and 2014 .... References 1956 births 21st-century Lithuanian politicians Lithuanian male writers 20th-century Lithuanian philosophers Lithuanian male breaststroke swimmers Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic bronze medalists in swimming Olympic swimmers of Lithuania Olympic swimmers of the Soviet Union Politicians from Vilni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wilkie (swimmer)
David Andrew Wilkie (born 8 March 1954) is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who was Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion in the 1970s. He is the only person to have held British, American, Commonwealth, European, world and Olympic swimming titles at the same time(31 July 2012Coaches; David Wilkie MBE"Coached off the Coach", STV (Scottish Television), Retrieved 27 April 2013. and was the first British swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960. He is a member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame, the International Swimming Hall of Fame, has been described as Scotland's greatest swimmer(29 June 2012)Golden Scots: David Wilkie in Montreal, 1976, BBC Sport Scotland, Retrieved 21 May 2013. and Britain's finest swimmer.Campbell, Alastair (10 July 2004) "Wilkie's strokes of genius secure him place in history – and my talent pool", ''The Times'', Retrieved 14 September 2013. Early days David Wilkie's parents came from Aberdeen, Scotland, but were st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
