Bill Craig (swimmer)
William Norval Craig (January 16, 1945 – January 1, 2017) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder. He represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he won a gold medal by swimming the breaststroke leg for the first-place U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Craig and his teammates Thompson Mann (backstroke), Fred Schmidt (butterfly) and Steve Clark (freestyle) set a new medley relay world record of 3:58.4.[2] Craig attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he swam for the USC Trojans swimming and diving team. He graduated in 1967.[3][4]
![]() Craig (left) at the 1964 Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | William Norval Craig | |||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | "Bill" | |||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Culver City, California, U.S.[1] | January 16, 1945|||||||||||||||||
Died | January 1, 2017 71) | (aged|||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Southern California | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Craig was last married to Patty Craig, with whom he had a son Christian; he also has a son Rick and daughter Kimber from a previous marriage.[4]
See also
References
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- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bill Craig". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-12-15.
- "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Swimming" Archived 2007-09-04 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)
- USC OLYMPIANS: 1904-2008 Archived 2018-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, USC Trojans Athletic Department, Accessed August 26, 2008.
- Bill Craig's obituary. ocregister.com