Sergio López Miró (born August 15, 1968) is a former international top

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from Spain, who won the bronze medal in the 200 meters breaststroke at the

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in Seoul. He competed in college for Indiana University and

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. López served as the head coach for the men's and women's swim teams at West Virginia University in

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from 2005 to 2007. In 2007 he became the head swimming coach at The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida and has coached several swimmers onto the U.S. national team:

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, Charlie Houchin, Ryan Murphy and also Singapore’s Joseph Schooling. He was appointed head coach of Singapore Swimming as well as an adviser coach of the coaching academy of the Singapore Sports Institute, with his term starting on January 1, 2015. On April 30, 2018, Virginia Tech athletic director Whit Babcock announced Lopez's hiring as head coach for the university's swimming and diving programs.

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West Virginia University athletics profile
1968 births Living people Swimmers from Catalonia Spanish male breaststroke swimmers Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Spain Olympic bronze medalists for Spain Spanish swimming coaches Swimmers from Barcelona Olympic bronze medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Indiana Hoosiers men's swimmers Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain Swimmers at the 1987 Mediterranean Games American Eagles men's swimmers West Virginia Mountaineers swimming coaches Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Virginia Tech Hokies swimming coaches {{Spain-Olympic-medalist-stub