Mike Austin (swimmer)
Appearance
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Full name | Michael MacKay Austin | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Mike" | ||||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||||
Born | West Orange, New Jersey | August 26, 1943||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 187 lb (85 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
College team | Yale University | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michael MacKay Austin (born August 26, 1943) is a retired American swimmer. He represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay with teammates Steve Clark, Gary Ilman and Don Schollander, setting a new world record of 3:33.2.[1] Individually, he placed sixth in the 100 m freestyle with a time of 54.5 seconds.[2]
Austin attended Yale University, where he swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Ivy League competition 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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mike Austin (swimmer).
- ^ "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 4×100 metres freestyle relay". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
- ^ Mike Austin. Sports-Reference.com
Categories:
- 1943 births
- Living people
- American male freestyle swimmers
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- People from West Orange, New Jersey
- Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Yale Bulldogs men's swimmers
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- American swimming biography stubs