Pablo Morales
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Full name | Pedro Pablo Morales Jr. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Chicago, Illinois | December 5, 1964|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 187 lb (85 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pedro Pablo Morales Jr. (born December 5, 1964) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and former world record-holder. He won a relay gold and two silver medals swimming butterfly at the 1984 Summer Olympics and set the world record in the 100-meter butterfly at the Olympic Trials that year as well as setting relay records with teammates Rick Carey, Steve Lundquist and Rowdy Gaines.
Morales attended Bellarmine College Preparatory, in San Jose, California, trained under the supervision of Larry Rogers. In 1988, on the heels of a record 11th National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) individual championship at Stanford University, he failed to qualify for the 1988 Summer Olympics. After briefly retiring from the sport to pursue a J.D. degree at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York, he returned to the Olympics in 1992 as the team captain and captured gold in the 100-meter butterfly. He is currently the head women's swimming and diving coach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
See also
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
- List of notable Cuban-Americans
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of Stanford University people
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 100 metres butterfly
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
External links
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Pablo Morales". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- Pablo Morales (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame
- 1964 births
- Living people
- American people of Mexican descent
- American male butterfly swimmers
- American male freestyle swimmers
- American male medley swimmers
- American swimming coaches
- College swimming coaches in the United States
- Cornell Law School alumni
- World record setters in swimming
- Hispanic and Latino American sportspeople
- Nebraska Cornhuskers swimming coaches
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Sportspeople from Chicago
- Stanford Cardinal men's swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from San Jose, California
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in swimming