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Stephen ("Steve") Lundquist (born February 20,
1961 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former swimmer
from the United
States, who was a member of the Olympic Team when the USA
boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics. His rise to
fame was when in 1984 he won two Olympic Gold medals: in the 100
meter breaststroke, and the 400 meter medley
relay.
Lundquist was the first swimmer to break 2 minutes in the 200
yard breaststroke.
He won every 100 yard breaststroke event he entered from 1980-1983.
At 17 he broke his first world record and in
his career he broke world and American records on 15 occasions. He
first broke the 100 meter breaststroke world record in 1982 and
held it until 1989 with the exception of one month when John
Moffett held it. He also held the world record in the 200 m
individual medley in 1978. He set American records in the
100 m and 200 m breaststroke and the 200 m
individual medley.
Coached by Arthur Winters, Steve from a butterfly swimmer when
he was 12 years old to the breaststroke which is the stroke he came
to dominate. Coach Art was at the end of the pool when he broke his
first world record at 17 years of age. Coach Art told him lots of
things that helped him swim faster including how to win the Olympic
100 m breaststroke.
Lundquist went on after the 1984 Olympics to spend much of his
time volunteering his time for charitable organizations and making
appearances on television and in movies. In June 1985, People Magazine awarded him having the Best
Chest of male celebrities, including a full-page picture of his
muscular torso. In 1996 when the Olympics were hosted in Atlanta, Georgia he was an Olympic Torch
Bearer, the Clayton County Master of Ceremonies for the torch run,
and he was also given the honor of being the Olympic Flag Bearer at
the 1996 Olympic Games. He currently runs his
own business, Digipik, a digital media company in the Stockbridge, Georgia area.
Achievements
- U.S. Honorary Olympic Team medalist, swimming, 1980
- United States Swimmer of the Year, 1982
- Olympia Award, 1983
- U.S. Olympic Team double gold medalist, swimming, 1984
- International Swimming Hall of Fame, inducted in 1990
- Georgia Sports Hall of
Fame's youngest inductee, 1990
- Olympic flagbearer, torch-runner, emcee, 1996
- Voted America's Top Breast-Stroker of the Century By US
Swimming
- Georgia State Games Cauldron Lighter, 1997
- 3rd place, Super Dogs Super Jocks, 1998
Education
Appearances
on America's major national talk shows
Acting
credits
- Regular on Search For
Tomorrow TV Soap
- Loveboat
- ABC TV's Actors to Watch Talent and Development Program
- Earth Girls are Easy
- Return of the Killer
Tomatoes
- Beach Boys MTV video "It's Getting Late"
- Splash videos
- After School TV special nominated for an Emmy entitled "Testing
Positive"
External
links
| Olympic
Champions in Men's 4×100 m Medley Relay |
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1960 USA (McKinney, Hait, Larson, Farrell)
| 1964
USA (Mann, Craig, Schmidt, Clark) | 1968 USA (Hickcox, McKenzie, Russell, Walsh) | 1972 USA (Stamm, Bruce, Spitz, Heidenreich) | 1976 USA (Naber, Hencken, Vogel, Montgomery) | 1980 Australia (Kerry, Evans, Tonelli, Brooks) | 1984 USA (Carey, Lundquist, Morales, Gaines) | 1988 USA (Berkoff, Schroeder,
Biondi, Jacobs) | 1992 USA (Rouse, Diebel, Morales, Olsen) | 1996 USA (Rouse, Linn, Henderson, Hall, Jr.)
| 2000
USA (Krayzelburg, Moses, Crocker, Hall, Jr.)
| 2004
USA (Peirsol, Hansen, Crocker, Lezak) | 2008 USA (Peirsol, Hansen, Phelps, Lezak)
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Pan American Champions
in Men's 4×100 m Medley Relay |
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1951: United States (Stack, Stassforth,
Cleveland) · 1955: United
States (McKinney, Maguire, Baarcke, Scholes) · 1959: United
States (McKinney, Munsch, Troy, Farrell) · 1963: United
States (McGeagh, Craig, Richardson, Kirby) · 1967: United
States (Russell, Webb, Spitz, Walsh) · 1971: United
States (Murphy, Job, Heidenreich, Heckl) · 1975: United
States (Rocca, Colella, Curington, Babashoff) · 1979: United
States (Jackson, Lundquist, Placak, McCagg) · 1983: United
States (Carey, Lundquist, Gribble, Gaines) · 1987: United
States (Gill, Korhammer, King, Dudley) · 1991: United
States (Gill, Dersch, Merrell, Thomas) · 1995: United
States (Rouse, Van Neerden, Henderson, Olsen) · 1999: Brazil (Massura, Tomazini, Scherer, Borges) · 2003: United
States (Marshall, Gangloff, Michaelson, Brunelli) · 2007: United
States (Bal, Gangloff, Berens, Grant)
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