Bill Craig (swimmer)
 Craig (left) at the 1964 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | William Norval Craig | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Bill" | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 16, 1945 Culver City, California, U.S.[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | January 1, 2017 (aged 71) | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Southern California | ||||||||||||||||
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William Norval Craig (January 16, 1945 – January 1, 2017) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder. He represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he won a gold medal by swimming the breaststroke leg for the first-place U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Craig and his teammates Thompson Mann (backstroke), Fred Schmidt (butterfly) and Steve Clark (freestyle) set a new medley relay world record of 3:58.4.[2] Craig attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he swam for the USC Trojans swimming and diving team. He graduated in 1967.[3][4]
Craig was last married to Patty Craig, with whom he had a son Christian; he also has a son Rick and daughter Kimber from a previous marriage.[4]
See also[]
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of University of Southern California people
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
References[]
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- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bill Craig". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-12-15.
- ^ "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Swimming" Archived 2007-09-04 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)
- ^ USC OLYMPIANS: 1904-2008 Archived 2018-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, USC Trojans Athletic Department, Accessed August 26, 2008.
- ^ a b Bill Craig's obituary. ocregister.com
External links[]
- Bill Craig at Olympedia
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