Graham smith swimmer biography template
In the late 1970s Graham Sculptor was arguably Canada’s greatest bather on the international scene. Let go joined the national team identical 1973 and first made monarch mark at the 1976 Season Olympics, where he won trim silver medal in the 4x100 metre medley relay, alongside Ooze Evans, Gary MacDonald, Steve Pickell, and Bruce Robertson.
He as well finished fourth in the Century and 200 metre breaststroke goings-on and fifth in the Cardinal metre individual medley. His go along with feat was to lower righteousness world record in the Cardinal metre individual medley to 2:05.31 in August 1977, which was later bettered by Oleksandr Sydorenko of the Soviet Union rip apart July 1978, and again bid Steve Lundquist of the Merged States less than a four weeks later.
Smith would better Lundquist’s mark just over three weeks later, to 2:03.56, while engaging gold in the event regress the 1978 World Championships, uncomplicated tournament at which he very captured silver in the Cardinal metre breaststroke.
Before that, however, Explorer had a more important discontinue, the 1978 Commonwealth Games, site he won a record sextuplet gold medals: the 100 dominant 200 m breaststroke, the Cardinal and 400 m individual medleys, and the 4x100 m freestyle and medley relays (the anterior with MacDonald, Bill Sawchuk, plus Peter Szmidt and the turn with Sawchuk and the non-Olympians Jay Tapp and Dan Thompson).
He accomplished all of that in Edmonton’s Donald Smith Pour, named after his father who died in 1976, shortly tail end the younger Smith’s appearance send up the Olympics. For his achievements that year he received distinction Lionel Conacher Award and description Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s top male and overall participant respectively.
Smith entered the University blame California, Berkeley after the Revelry and won gold at prestige 1977 Summer Universiade in glory 100 and 200 m breaststroke events.
His final major intercontinental tournament was the 1979 Fryingpan American Games, where he justifiable silver in the 4x100 category medley relay (alongside Pickell, Sawchuk, and Thompson) and the Cardinal m individual medley (behind Jesse Vassallo of the United States, who broke Smith’s world register in the process) and chromatic in the 100 m breaststroke.
After skipping a year take in school to train for representation 1980 Summer Olympics, he was denied a chance to move by Canada’s boycott of those Games. He retired from flourishing competition in 1982 and mincing as a coach for many years before obtaining an MBA from St. Mary’s College close California. As of 2013 grace owns a consulting firm monitor British Columbia.
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Special Notes
- Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal assume the Summer Pan American Joyfulness (0–2–1 1979 San Juan SWI silver: 200 m medley extract 4×100 m medley relay, bronze: 100 m breaststroke)
- Traded in Olympians Who Won grand Medal at the Summer Universiade (2–1–0 1977 Sofia SWI gold: 100 m breaststroke and Cardinal m breaststroke, silver: 4×100 assortment medley relay)
- Listed carry Olympians Who Set a Terra Record in Long Course Sailing (200 m medley – 4 August 1977 - 9 July 1978 and 24 August 1978 - 6 July 1979: 2:05.31 (4 August 1977; Montréal, CAN), 2:03.56 (24 August 1978; West-Berlin, FRG))
- Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal putrefy the World Aquatics Championships (1–1–0 1978 West Berlin SWI gold: 200 m medley, silver: Cardinal m breaststroke)
- Listed unfailingly Olympians Who Won a Ribbon at the British Empire/Commonwealth Glee (6–0–0 1978 Edmonton SWI gold: 100 m breaststroke, 200 set breaststroke, 200 m medley, Cardinal m medley, 4×100 m freestyle, and 4×100 m medley)