Shaun M. Jordan (born February 1, 1968) is an American former competition

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who was highly successful as a member of the U.S.

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relay teams in the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. Jordan won two Olympic gold medals. At the

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in Seoul, South Korea, he earned his first gold medal by the winning U.S. men's team in the qualifying heats of the 4×100-meter freestyle. He received his second gold medal at the

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in Barcelona, Spain, again by swimming in the preliminary heats for the first-place U.S. team in the 4×100-meter freestyle. Jordan won a gold medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay and a bronze in the individual 100-meter freestyle at the

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. He attended the

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, where he swam for coach

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team from 1988 to 1991. He was a member of the Longhorns' four consecutive NCAA national championships team, and he was also a three-time NCAA individual national champion: the 50-yard freestyle (1991); 100-yard freestyle (1989 and 1991); and was a 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle Southwest Conference record holder. Jordan holds the Texas Longhorns' 100-yard freestyle record and was captain of the Longhorns' 1990-91 NCAA national championship team. The second time Shaun played golf he shot a hole-in-one. He graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1991. In 1997 he received his master of business administration (M.B.A.) degree with a focus in marketing from the University of Texas. He works as a marketing director at Abraham Trading Company, a

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(CTA).

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* * 1968 births Living people American male freestyle swimmers Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming Sportspeople from Jacksonville, Florida Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Texas Longhorns men's swimmers Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Florida 20th-century American people 21st-century American people {{US-swimming-bio-stub

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