Tom Malchow
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Full name | Thomas Andrew Malchow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. | August 18, 1976|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Club Wolverine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Michigan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Thomas Andrew Malchow (born August 18, 1976) is a retired American competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder.
Malchow represented the United States in three consecutive Summer Olympics. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he received a silver medal for his second-place performance in the men's 200-meter butterfly. Four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he won the gold medal in the men's 200-meter butterfly. He also set a new world record in the 200-meter butterfly in 2000.
Malchow was also a captain of the U.S. Men's Swimming Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He attended high school in Minnesota at Saint Thomas Academy, graduated from the University of Michigan and was a member of the United States Swimming (USS) Team 'Star'.
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of University of Michigan alumni
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 200 metres butterfly
References
- Tom Malchow at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
External links
- Tom Malchow at the U.S Olympic Team at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-05-15)
- Tom Malchow at Olympics.com
- 1976 births
- Living people
- American male butterfly swimmers
- World record setters in swimming
- Michigan Wolverines men's swimmers
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- Sportspeople from Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Swimmers at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
- Goodwill Games medalists in swimming
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States
- Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
- Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games
- Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- 20th-century American sportspeople
- 21st-century American sportspeople
- 21st-century American sportsmen