Rodney Strachan (born October 16, 1955) is an American former competition
swimmer and Olympic champion. He competed at the
1976 Summer Olympics
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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
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
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in Belgrade.
Strachan held the long course world record in the 400-meter individual medley (4:23.68) from July 1976 to August 1978.
See also
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List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in swimming.
Men's events 50 metre freestyle
100 metre freestyle
200 metre freestyle
400 metre freestyle
800 metre freestyle
1500 metre freestyle
100 metre backstroke
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World record progression 400 metres individual medley
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1955 births
Living people
American male medley swimmers
World record setters in swimming
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
Swimmers from Santa Monica, California
Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
USC Trojans men's swimmers
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
20th-century American people
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