Steve Lundquist

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Olympic medal record
Men’s Swimming
Gold 1984 Los Angeles 100 m Breaststroke
Gold 1984 Los Angeles 4 x 100 m Medley Relay

Stephen ("Steve") Lundquist (born February 20, 1961) is a former swimmer from the United States, who was a member of the Olympic Team when the USA boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics. His rise to fame was when in 1984 he won two Olympic Gold medals: in the 100 meter breaststroke, and the 400 meter medley relay.

Lundquist was the first swimmer to break 2 minutes in the 200 yard breaststroke. He won every 100 yard breaststroke event he entered from 1980-1983. At 17 he broke his first world record and in his career he broke world and American records on 15 occasions. He first broke the 100 meter breaststroke world record in 1982 and held it until 1989 with the exception of one month when John Moffet held it. He also held the world record in the 200m IM in 1978. He set American records in the 100m and 200m breast and the 200m IM.

Lundquist went on after the 1984 Olympics to spend much of his time volunteering his time for charitable organizations and making appearances on television and in movies. In 1996 when the Olympics were hosted in Atlanta, Georgia he was an Olympic Torch Bearer, the Clayton County Master of Ceremonies for the torch run, and he was also given the honor of being the Olympic Flag Bearer at the 1996 Olympic Games. He currently runs his own business, Digipik, a digital media company in the Stockbridge, Georgia area.

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[edit] Achievements

  • U.S. Honorary Olympic Team medalist, swimming, 1980
  • United States Swimmer of the Year, 1982
  • Olympia Award, 1983
  • U.S. Olympic Team double gold medalist, swimming, 1984
  • International Swimming Hall of Fame, inducted in 1990
  • Georgia Sports Hall of Fame's youngest inductee, 1990
  • Olympic flagbearer, torch-runner, emcee, 1996
  • Voted America's Top Breast-Stroker of the Century By US Swimming
  • Georgia State Games Cauldron Lighter, 1997

[edit] Education

[edit] Civic Activities

(Speaking, Hosting, and Honorary Chairmanships) Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" Program The Will Roger's Institute Live Aid Hands Across America The American Red Cross U.S. Olympic Coin Programs The American Diabetes Association The U.S Treasury Cystic Fibrosis Atlanta Ski Club U.S. Olympic Committee Egleston Beat Leukemia Classics Make-A-Wish Foundation Swim Across the Sound For Leukemia Research Various Children's and Burn Hospitals Florida Hospital Foundation Cystic Fibrosis Foundation For Children With Learning Disabilities Special Olympics Georgia State Games Atlanta Preservation Society Junior League of Atlanta American Heart Foundation Easter Seals Multiple Sclerosis Goodwill Games Princess Grace Foundation Clayton County PTA Providence Day School

[edit] Appearances on America's Major National Talk Shows

[edit] Acting credits

  • Regular on Search For Tomorrow TV Soap
  • Loveboat
  • ABC TV's Actors to Watch Talent and Development Program
  • Return of the Killer Tomatoes
  • Beach Boys MTV video "It's Getting Late"
  • Splash videos
  • After School TV special nominated for an Emmy entitled "Testing Positive"

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Olympic champions in men's 100 m breaststroke
1968: Don McKenzie | 1972: Nobutaka Taguchi | 1976: John Hencken | 1980: Duncan Goodhew | 1984: Steve Lundquist | 1988: Adrian Moorhouse | 1992: Nelson Diebel | 1996: Frederik Deburghgraeve | 2000: Domenico Fioravanti | 2004: Kosuke Kitajima
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