Ryan Held
 Held after winning the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2016 Olympics | |||||||||||||||
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| National team |  United States | ||||||||||||||
| Born | June 27, 1995[2][3] Springfield, Illinois[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
| College team | North Carolina State University[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Ryan Held (born June 27, 1995) is an American freestyle swimmer who specializes in the sprint events. At the 2016 US trials he qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics as a member of the 4×100 meter freestyle relay team.[1] In the Olympic heats, he swam a split time of 47.79 on the second leg, impressing the coaching staff enough to give him the nod to swim in the final. In the final he split 47.73 on the third leg, winning the gold medal together with Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, and Nathan Adrian. Held's emotional outpouring on the medal stand was widely broadcast and made him a social media darling. [4] He attended Christ the King grade school in Springfield, Illinois and attended high school at Sacred-Heart Griffin[5] where he graduated in 2014. During his senior year in 2014, Held was named Illinois State Swimmer of the Year.
References
- ^ a b c "SHG grad Ryan Held going to Olympics in swimming relay". The State Journal-Register. June 30, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Ryan Held. rio2016.com
- ^ "U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Swimming, Men's 100m Freestyle Final, Start list". Omega Timing. June 29, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
- ^ Ryan Held Breaks Tears. Daily Mail (UK) 8 Aug 2016
- ^ "Ryan Held Bio - SwimSwam". Retrieved September 12, 2016.
External links
- {{USA Swimming}} template missing ID.
- Ryan Held at Team USA (archived)
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