Steve Lundquist

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Steve Lundquist
Personal information
Full name Stephen K. Lundquist
Nickname(s) "Steve," "Lunk"
Nationality  United States
Born (1961-02-20) February 20, 1961
Atlanta, Georgia
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight 183 lb (83 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Stroke(s) Breaststroke, individual medley
College team Southern Methodist University

Stephen K. Lundquist (born February 20, 1961) is an American former swimmer who was an Olympic gold medalist. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, he won gold medals in the 100-meter breaststroke and the 400-meter medley relay.

Lundquist was the first swimmer to break two minutes in the 200-yard breaststroke. He won every 100-yard breaststroke event he entered from 1980 to 1983.[citation needed] 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 Moffett held it. He also held the world record in the 200-meterindividual medley in 1978. He set American records in the 100-meter and 200-meterbreaststroke and the 200-meer individual medley.

Coached by Arthur Winters, Steve from a butterfly swimmer when he was 12 years old to the breaststroke which is the stroke he came to dominate. Coach Art was at the end of the pool when he broke his first world record at 17 years of age. Coach Art told him lots of things that helped him swim faster including how to win the Olympic 100-meter breaststroke.

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 June 1985, People Magazine awarded him having the Best Chest of male celebrities, including a full-page picture of his muscular torso. 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.

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
  • 3rd place, Super Dogs Super Jocks, 1998

Education

Appearances on America's major national talk shows

Acting credits

  • Regular on Search For Tomorrow TV Soap
  • Loveboat
  • ABC TV's Actors to Watch Talent and Development Program
  • Earth Girls are Easy
  • 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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Records
Preceded by
Soviet Union Aleksandr Sidorenko		 Men's 200-meter individual medley
world record-holder (long course)
August 2, 1978 – August 24, 1978 		Succeeded by
Canada Graham Smith


Olympic Champions in Men's 100 m Breaststroke
Olympic Champions in Men's 4×100 m Medley Relay
World Long Course Champions in Men's 100 m Breaststroke
World Long Course Champions in Men's 4×100 m Medley Relay
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