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]
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Full name | William Norval Craig | ||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | "Bill" | ||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||
Born | (1945-01-16)January 16, 1945 Culver City, California, U.S.[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Died | January 1, 2017(2017-01-01) (aged 71) | ||||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||||
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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]
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1964 USA Olympic swimming team | ||
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NCAA Champions in Men's 100 y Breaststroke | |
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NCAA Champions in Men's 200 y Breaststroke | |
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