Richard Schroeder
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Full name | Richard Alan Schroeder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Rich" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | October 29, 1961 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 174 lb (79 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Santa Barbara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Richard Alan Schroeder (born October 29, 1961) is an American former competition swimmer who was a breaststroke specialist and two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Schroeder represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. He earned a gold medal by swimming the breaststroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. At the 1984 Olympics, he also competed in the men's 200-meter breaststroke, finishing fourth in the final with a time of 2:18.03.[1]
He also represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He won a gold medal swimming the breaststroke leg in the final of the men's 4×100-meter medley relay for the winning U.S. team. He also finished sixth in the final of the men's 100-meter breaststroke event with a time of 1:02.55.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Rich Schroeder. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- 1961 births
- Living people
- American male breaststroke swimmers
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's swimmers
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American swimming Olympic medalist stubs