Tom Bruce (swimmer)
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Full name | Thomas Edwin Bruce | |||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Tom" | |||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Red Bluff, California | April 17, 1952|||||||||||||||||
Died | April 9, 2020[1] | (aged 67)|||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 161 lb (73 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Santa Clara Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Los Angeles | |||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Edwin Bruce (April 17, 1952 – April 9, 2020) was an American competitive swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Bruce was a graduate of Marian A. Peterson High School in Sunnyvale, California. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he swam for the UCLA Bruins swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. He represented the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. At Munich, he won a silver medal in the men's 100-meter breaststroke, and also earned a gold medal swimming the breaststroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Bruce, together with his relay teammates Mike Stamm (backstroke), Mark Spitz (butterfly) and Jerry Heidenreich (freestyle), set a new world record of 3:48.16.
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of University of California, Los Angeles people
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
References
External links
- Tom Bruce at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1952 births
- 2020 deaths
- American male breaststroke swimmers
- World record setters in swimming
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- People from Red Bluff, California
- Sportspeople from Sunnyvale, California
- Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- UCLA Bruins men's swimmers
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century American people
- American swimming biography stubs