Mike Austin (swimmer)
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| Full name | Michael MacKay Austin | ||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Mike" | ||||||||||||
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 United States | ||||||||||||
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August 26, 1943 West Orange, New Jersey | ||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 187 lb (85 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Stroke(s) | Freestyle | ||||||||||||
| College team | Yale University | ||||||||||||
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Michael MacKay Austin (born August 26, 1943) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, where he won a gold medal in the men's 4×100-meter freestyle relay with Steve Clark, Gary Ilman and Don Schollander, setting a new world record.[1] He also placed sixth in the final of the men's 100-meter freestyle.
Austin attended Yale University, where he swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team from 1962 to 1964. He graduated from Yale with his bachelor's degree in 1964. Austin donated his Olympic gold medal to his alma mater in 2006.
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of Yale University people
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay
References
- ↑ "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 4×100 metres freestyle relay". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
External links
- Mike Austin – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
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