Tom Ponting
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Full name | Thomas Harold Ponting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Tom" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | January 28, 1965||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Calgary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas John Ponting (born January 28, 1965) is a Canadian former competitive swimmer who specialized in the butterfly stroke. Ponting competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for Canada starting with the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. At every occasion he won a medal with the men's 4 × 100 m medley relay team: two silver and one bronze.
At the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) swimming championships in 1989, Ponting broke the world and Canadian records in the 100-metre butterfly, with a time of 52.62 seconds. The record still stands as the CIS record.
Ponting is the only swimmer in Canadian history to win three Olympic medals in three different Olympic Games (1992, 1988 and 1984).
World Record Short Course:
4 × 100 m medley relay (1991)
4 × 100 m medley relay (1992)
100 m butterfly - 52.62 (1989)
See also
- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
References
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Canadian male butterfly swimmers
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Canada
- Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of Canada
- Pan American Games competitors for Canada
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
- Sportspeople from Montreal
- Swimmers at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Canadian Olympic medalist stubs
- Canadian swimming biography stubs