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Categories: 1924 births > Living people > Swimmers at the 1948 Summer Olympics > American swimmers > Ohio State University alumni > Ohio State Varsity O Hall of Fame > Olympic gold medalists for the United States

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Medal record
Men's swimming
Competitor for the United States
Olympic Games
Gold	1948 London	400 m freestyle
Gold	1948 London	4×200 m freestyle relay

William Smith (born May 16, 1924) was one of the most successful competitive swimmers in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. He was a four-time All-American on the Ohio State University swim team. He was undefeated in fours years of duel meet competition. He set seven world records and won fourteen National Championships: seven NCAA, six NAAU indoor and one NAAU outdoor. He won two gold medals at the 1948 Olympic Games in the 400 m freestyle and 800 m freestyle relay. Smith held all the world records between the 200 and 1000-meter freestyle.

References

Biography at Sports Reference

Olympic Champions in Men's 400 m Freestyle

1904: (440 yards) Charles Daniels | 1906: Otto Scheff | 1908: Henry Taylor | 1912: George Hodgson | 1920: Norman Ross | 1924: Johnny Weissmuller | 1928: Alberto Zorrilla | 1932: Buster Crabbe | 1936: Jack Medica | 1948: William Smith | 1952: Jean Boiteux | 1956: Murray Rose | 1960: Murray Rose | 1964: Don Schollander | 1968: Mike Burton | 1972: Brad Cooper | 1976: Brian Goodell | 1980: Vladimir Salnikov | 1984: George DiCarlo | 1988: Uwe Daßler | 1992: Yevgeny Sadovyi | 1996: Danyon Loader | 2000: Ian Thorpe | 2004: Ian Thorpe | 2008: Park Taehwan

Olympic Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1908: Great Britain (Derbyshire, Radimilovic, Foster, Taylor) | 1912: Australasia (Healy, Champion, Boardman, Hardwick) | 1920: USA (McGillivray, Kealoha, Ross, Kahanamoku) | 1924: USA (Weissmuller, O'Connor, Glancy, Breyer) | 1928: USA (Weissmuller, Clapp, Laufer, Kojac) | 1932: Japan (Yusa, Miyazaki, Yokoyama, Toyoda) | 1936: Japan (Yusa, Sugiura, Arai, Taguchi) | 1948: USA (Ris, McLane, Wolf, Smith) | 1952: USA (Moore, Woolsey, Konno, McLane) | 1956: Australia (O'Halloran, Devitt, Rose, Henricks) | 1960: USA (Harrison, Blick, Troy, Farrell) | 1964: USA (Schollander, Clark, Saari, Ilman) | 1968: USA (Schollander, Spitz, Nelson, Rerych) | 1972: USA (Spitz, Kinsella, Tyler, Genter) | 1976: USA (Bruner, Furniss, Naber, Montgomery) | 1980: Soviet Union (Kopliakov, Salnikov, Stukolkin, Krylov) | 1984: USA (Heath, Larson, Float, Hayes) | 1988: USA (Dalbey, Cetlinski, Gjertsen, Biondi) | 1992: Unified Team (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Tayanovich, Sadovyi) | 1996: USA (Davis, Hudepohl, Schumacher, Berube) | 2000: Australia (Thorpe, Klim, Pearson, Kirby) | 2004: USA (Phelps, Lochte, Vanderkaay, Keller) | 2008: USA (Phelps, Lochte, Berens, Vanderkaay)

Categories: 1924 births | Living people | Swimmers at the 1948 Summer Olympics | American swimmers | Ohio State University alumni | Ohio State Varsity O Hall of Fame | Olympic gold medalists for the United States | United States swimming Olympic medalist stubs

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