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Swimming At The 1973 World Aquatics Championships
These are the results (medal winners) of the swimming competition at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships. Medal table Medal summary Men Legend: WR – World record; CR – Championship record Women Legend: WR – World record; CR – Championship record ReferencesHistoFINA MenHistoFINA Women {{Swimming at the World Aquatics Championships Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships, 1973 in swimming, World Championships 1973 World Aquatics Championships Swimming at the World Aquatics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 World Aquatics Championships
The 1st FINA World Championships in Aquatics were held in the Tašmajdan Sports Centre in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia, from 31 August to 9 September 1973. Medal table Results Diving ;Men ;Women Swimming ;Men ;Women Synchronised swimming ;Women Water polo ;Men Participating nations 47 nations entered the competition. External links FINA Official Championship Results History – Swimming (50m)FINA Official Championship Results History – DivingFINA Official Championship Results History – Water poloFINA Official Championship Results History – Synchronized swimming [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobutaka Taguchi
is a retired Japanese breaststroke swimmer. He competed in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke and 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won two medals in 1972, a gold in the 100 m and a bronze in the 200 m events. His breaststroke gold medal was the first for Japan since 1956. He won during the five-year era dominated by John Hencken and David Wilkie. He also earned the bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1972 Olympics and in both breaststrokes at the 1975 World Championships. He ended his career after the 1976 Olympics. Later life In 1987 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. He became a lecturer at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya in 1984, and a professor of physical education in 1993. He became professor emeritus in 2017. See also * List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame The International Swimming Hall of Fame The International Swimming Hall of Fame and Museum (ISHOF) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Murphy (swimmer)
John Joseph Murphy (born July 19, 1953) is an American former backstroke and freestyle swimmer who won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter freestyle relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. At the 1972 Olympics, the 19-year-old also earned a bronze medal in the men's 100-meter backstroke. He attended Indiana University, where he swam for coach James Counsilman's Indiana Hoosiers swim team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. Murphy currently resides in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and serves as a youth swim team coach. See also * List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) * List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men) * World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay This article includes the world record progression for the 4×100 metres freestyle relay, and it shows the chronological history of world record times in that compet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Nash
Mel Nash (born c. 1955) is a retired American swimmer who won a gold and a bronze medal at the world championships in 1973 and 1975. He also won the 100 m backstroke event at the 1971 Pan American Games. In 1972, he was chosen by the '' Swimming World Magazine'' as the national high school swimmer of the year. Nash studied at a high school in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, and then at the Indiana University. After graduating in 1976, he retired from swimming to become a swimming coach at the University of Texas at Arlington. Aged 22, he was the youngest head coach of any sport in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. After two years, his program was discontinued, and in the summer of 1979 Nash and his wife Carol moved to the Texas A&M University. He stayed there until 2004, raising more than 60 national team members. Although he was eventually let go by the school. In 1982 and 1986 he was recognized as Southwest Conference men's coach of the year, and in 1987 as women's coach o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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 |
András Hargitay
András Hargitay (born 17 March 1956) is a retired swimmer from Hungary, who won the bronze medal in the 400 m individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He finished fourth in the same event at the 1976 and 1980 Games, missing the bronze medal by less than 0.3 seconds in both cases. In 1974, he set a new world record in the 400 m medley. He was named Hungarian Sportsman of the Year in 1975 after winning two gold medals at the 1975 World Aquatics Championships. See also * List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame The International Swimming Hall of Fame The International Swimming Hall of Fame and Museum (ISHOF) is a history museum and hall of fame, located at One Hall of Fame Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, operated by private interests and ... References * les-sports.info* Jean-Louis Meuret (2007)HistoFINA Volume IV – Tome IV MEDALLISTS AND STATISTICS. Special FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (50 m.) Before Rome 2009. External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Carper
Stan or STAN may refer to: People * Stan (given name), a list of people with the given name ** Stan Laurel (1890–1965), English comic actor, part of duo Laurel and Hardy * Stan (surname), a Romanian surname * Stan! (born 1964), American author, cartoonist and games designer Steven Brown * Stan (singer) (born 1987), Greek singer born Stratos Antipariotis Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Stan, an alligator in the 2006 Disney animated film ''The Wild'' * Grunkle Stan, in the animated TV series ''Gravity Falls'' * Stan, in the 2009 American fantasy comedy movie '' 17 Again'' * Stan, from the film ''Crawl'' * Stan Beeman, in the TV series ''The Americans'' * Stan Carter, in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Stan Edgar, in the Amazon Prime Video series '' The Boys'' * Stan Gable, in the ''Revenge of the Nerds'' film series played by Ted McGinley * Stan Marsh, in the animated TV series ''South Park'' * Stan Ogden, in the British soap opera ''Coronation Street'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Larsson (swimmer)
Karl Gunnar Larsson (born 12 May 1951) is a former swimmer from Sweden. He won the 400 metre individual medley event at the 1972 Summer Olympics by two one-thousandths (0.002) of a second over American Tim McKee, breaking the Olympic record. The controversy over the accuracy of such timing was the reason the international swimming rules were subsequently changed, and today swimming times are measured in hundredths of a second. He also won the 200 metre individual medley event at the same Olympic Games, setting the new world record. Two years earlier, Larsson received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal due to his swimming at the 1970 European championships where he won three gold (200 metre medley, 400 metre medley and 400 metre freestyle) and one silver (200 m freestyle). A year later, 1973, Larsson won the 200 metre individual medley at the first official FINA World Championships in Belgrade. During his career, Larsson set three world and eight European records. Together with A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartmut Flöckner
Hartmut Flöckner (born 27 June 1953) is a retired German swimmer. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics in six events in total, and won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay in 1972. His best individual results were seventh place in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly in 1972. Between 1970 and 1974 he won one silver and four bronze medals in the 200 m individual butterfly and 4 × 100 m relays at the world and European championships. References 1953 births Living people Swimmers from Berlin Sportspeople from East Berlin German male swimmers German male freestyle swimmers German male butterfly swimmers Olympic swimmers for East Germany Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for East Germany World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in swimming 20th-century German ... [...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 met ... 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] |
Robin Backhaus
Robin James Backhaus (born February 12, 1955) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. Backhaus represented the United States as a 17-year-old at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes Robin Backhaus Retrieved October 22, 2012. He won a bronze medal for his third-place performance in the men's 200-meter butterfly, finishing with a time of 2:03.23 behind Mark Spitz and Gary Hall, and completing an American sweep of the event. At the 1973 World Aquatics Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, he won gold medals for his first-place finish in the 200-meter butterfly, and as a member of the winning U.S. team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. He also received a bronze medal third for finishing in the 100-meter butterfly. Domestically Backhaus won three AAU titles, in the 200 yd butterfly indoors in 1973–74, and in the 100 m butterfly in 1973. He also won NCAA titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |