Mark Gangloff
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| Full name | Mark Daniel Gangloff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 8, 1982 Buffalo, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Auburn University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mark Daniel Gangloff (born June 8, 1982) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and former world record-holder.
Gangloff represented the United States at two consecutive Summer Olympics. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, he earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the 4×100-meter medley relay. In individual competition, he placed fourth in the men's 100-meter breaststroke. Four years later at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he again participated in his signature event, the 100-meter breaststroke, and placed eighth in the event final.[1]
Gangloff broke the American record in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 59.01 at the U.S. Swimming National Championships in 2009.[2]
He attended Firestone High School in Akron, Ohio. He accepted an athletic scholarship to attend Auburn University, where he swam for the Auburn Tigers swimming and diving team in NCAA competition from 2001 to 2005. He graduated from Auburn in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in criminology. Gangloff appeared in the 2006 movie The Guardian.
See also
[edit]- List of Auburn University people
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mark Gangloff". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
- ^ "Gangloff, Smit set American record in Indy". usaswimming.org. USA Swimming. Retrieved July 15, 2007.[permanent dead link]
- "Montreal 2005 Results". fina.org. FINA. Archived from the original on January 28, 2007. Retrieved June 9, 2007.
- "Pan American Games Rio 2007 Results". rio2007.org.br. 2007 Pan American Games. Archived from the original on July 14, 2007. Retrieved July 29, 2007.
- "Swimming Results". sports123.com. Archived from the original on May 18, 2011. Retrieved August 4, 2007.
- "2004 Olympic Games swimming results". sportsillustrated.cnn.com. Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on August 14, 2004. Retrieved July 22, 2007.
- "7th FINA World Championships – 25m Indianapolis 2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 26, 2007. Retrieved July 24, 2007.
External links
[edit]- Mark Gangloff at World Aquatics
- Mark Gangloff at Olympics.com
- Mark Gangloff at Olympic.org (archived)
- Mark Gangloff at USA Swimming (archived June 2, 2021)
- Mark Gangloff at Team USA (archive January 11, 2012)
- Mark Gangloff at IMDb
- Mark Gangloff fact sheet at Arluck Promotions at the Wayback Machine (archived January 19, 2016)
- Video interview at Flocasts at the Wayback Machine (archived March 11, 2008)
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