The Race Club is a

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club known for training

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swimmers with its swimming training program that is focused on specific swimming techniques, located in

Islamorada, Florida Islamorada (also sometimes Islas Morada) is an incorporated village in Monroe County, Florida. It is located directly between Miami and Key West on five islands— Tea Table Key, Lower Matecumbe Key, Upper Matecumbe Key, Windley Key and Plant ...

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History

The Race Club was founded in 2003 by

Gary Hall, Jr. Gary Wayne Hall Jr. (born September 26, 1974) is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics and won ten Olympic medals (five gold, three silver, two bronze). He is a former wor ...

, an American swimmer who competed in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics and won ten Olympic medals (5 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze). A managing partner of The Race Club is Gary Hall, Jr.'s father, Gary Hall, Sr., a three-time

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ist (1968, 1972 and 1976) who was voted the World’s greatest male swimmer in both 1969 and 1970. At the Montreal

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, Hall's teammates voted him to be the

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who led the U.S. Olympic Team into

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for the

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. The Halls became the first pair of father and son to each make three Olympic appearances. In 2004, swimmers from The Race Club won 6 Olympic medals at the Athens Olympic Games. In 2006, The Race Club began offering summer swim camps for swimmers of any age to learn how to swim faster. In 2008, 17 swimmers representing 15 countries that trained with The Race Club competed in the Beijing Olympics. Two more Olympic medals were won. All swam personal best times.

Swimming training program

The Race Club swimming training programs incorporate five disciplines; swim training,

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, mental training ( sport psychology),

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and recovery (

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). The Race Club facilities are located at Founders Park in Islamorada, Fla. The 50-meter swimming pool features eight lanes and a 12-foot

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pool.

Swimming nutrition

To complement the swimming training program, The Race Club offers specialized nutrition for swimmers focused on

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nutrition.

Swimming video

The Race club utilizes specialized

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equipment to create swimming technique videos, and can video a swimmer from under water or above the water to analyze swimming strokes underwater and from different angles to improve skill.Swimming Video DVDs , The Race Club , Swimming Technique DVD, Swimming DVD, Swimming Video , The Race Club
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Olympic medalists from The Race Club World Team

Anthony Ervin Anthony Lee Ervin (born May 26, 1981) is an American competition swimmer who has won four Olympic medals and two World Championship golds. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the men's 50-meter freestyle, and earned a silver med ...

* Gary Hall, Sr. *

Klete Keller Klete Derik Keller (born March 21, 1982) is an American convicted felon and former competitive swimmer. Before retiring from swimming in 2008, Keller won five Olympic medals, including two golds, at the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics in ...

Nathan Adrian Nathan Ghar-jun Adrian (born December 7, 1988) is an American competitive swimmer and five-time Olympic gold medalist who formerly held the American record in the long course 50-meter freestyle event. In his Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer O ...

Milorad Čavić Milorad "Milo" Čavić ( sr-Cyrl, Милорад "Мило" Чавић, ; born May 31, 1984) is a Serbian former professional swimmer. He won a silver medal in the 100-meter butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in a historic race with American ...

* Mirna Jukić *

Duje Draganja Duje Draganja (; born 27 February 1983) is a retired Croatian swimmer who won the silver medal in men's 50 metres freestyle race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Career Draganja won a silver medal in 2005 World Aquatics Champio ...

George Bovell George Richard Lycott Bovell (born 18 July 1983) is an Olympic bronze medalist swimmer and former world record holder from Trinidad and Tobago. Bovell is also a two-time World Championship bronze medalist. Olympic career George Bovell represen ...

* Therese Alshammar * Fernando Scherer

Olympic team members from The Race Club

Mike Bottom Mike Bottom (c. 1956) is the ninth head coach of the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving program at the University of Michigan. His men's team finished as champions at the 2013 NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships. Swimming car ...

, coach * Henrique Barbosa *

Guy Barnea Guy Marcos Barnea (; born 9 September 1987) is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won three medals at the European Championships. As of March 2016, he held the Israeli records in the long course 50m ...

* Ricardo Busquets * Gordan Kožulj * Mario Delač *

Brett Hawke Brett Geoffrey Hawke (born 2 June 1975) is a former competitive swimmer who represented Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics. He was the head coach of the Auburn Tigers swimming and diving team of Auburn University ...

* Michelle Engelsman *

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* Mark Foster *

Darren Mew Darren Mew (born 12 December 1979) is a British swimmer specialising in breaststroke. He is a member of Ellesmere College Titans and studied sport as a student at the University of Bath. He has competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for ...

Bartosz Kizierowski Bartłomiej "Bartosz" Kizierowski (born 20 February 1977) is a freestyle who represented Poland in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. Biography Kizierowski began his career as a backstroke swimmer, but changed to freestyle ...

Dominik Meichtry Dominik Meichtry (born November 18, 1984) is a Swiss competitive swimmer specializing in the middle distance freestyle events. He currently holds six Swiss national records (long course and short course). Meichtry has won 31 individual Swi ...

* Igor Marchenko

References

External links

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