Men swimming olympians

REESE AT THE OLYMPICS


At the 1984 Los Angeles Games

Rick Carey- won three gold medals in the 100 and 200 backstroke, as well as the 400 medley relay –

As head coach of the 1992 U.S. team in Barcelona, Reese’s swimmers captured 13 medals, including six gold.

Former Longhorns Hans Dersch earned a gold in the 400-meter medley relay (prelims).

Doug Gjertsen captured gold in the 400-meter free relay (prelims) and a bronze as a member of the American 800-meter free relay, and

Shaun Jordan won gold swimming a prelim leg on USA’s 400-meter relay team.

Josh Davis at the 1996 Atlanta Games captured gold in the 400 medley relay, the 400 free relay, and the 800 free relay.

At the 2000 Olympics

Crocker and Peirsol joined with seven former Longhorns (Josh Davis, Dusing, Scott Goldblatt, Gary Hall Jr., Tommy Hannan, Jamie Rauch and Neil Walker – on the United States team. Overall, Longhorn swimmers accounted for one-third of the entire U.S. men’s team in Sydney.

  • UT made up three-fourths of the 400-meter medley relay team that captured a gold medal with Walker, Hannan and Crocker.

  • The 800-meter freestyle relay team, which was made up entirely of former Longhorns, won the silver medal with Davis, Dusing, Goldblatt and Rauch.

  • Walker and Davis won silver medals with the 400-meter freestyle relay team,

  • while Peirsol earned a silver medal in the 200-meter backstroke before even stepping foot on the UT campus.

At the 2004 Athens Games,

  1. senior Nathan O’Brien qualified for Team Canada while a total of seven former Longhorns (Crocker, Nate Dusing, Scott Goldblatt, Gary Hall Jr., Hansen, Peirsol and Neil Walker) – equivalent to one-third of the entire men’s squad – earned a spot on the United States’ Olympic Team.

  2. Leading the Texas swimmers at the 2004 Athens Games was Peirsol, who duplicated American teammate Lenny Krayzelburg’s sweep of the backstroke in Sydney, Australia, and became only the fifth swimmer in Olympic history and second Texas swimmer to win both backstroke events (Rick Carey, 1984);

  3. Crocker, who won gold in the 400 medley relay, silver in the 100 butterfly and bronze in the 400 freestyle relay, and

  4. Hansen, who captured gold in the 400 medley relay, silver in the 100 breaststroke and bronze in the 200 breaststroke.

  5. Gary Hall, Jr., who was competing in his third-straight Olympiad, won the 50-meter freestyle for the second year in succession.

  6. Hall, Jr., Dusing and Walker each earned bronze medals swimming the 400 freestyle relay,

  7. while Walker also captured his second-straight gold medal in the 400 medley relay.

  8. Meanwhile, Goldblatt captured his first career gold medal as a member of the 800 freestyle relay team. All said, Texas swimmers had medaled in six individual events and swam at least one leg on all three medal-winning relay squads.

Coach Reese was the Olympic head coach of the 1992 Barcelona, 2004 Athens games, and the 2008 Bejing games. In addition to his head coaching duties, Reese worked as an assistant coach for the U.S. in four other Olympiads: 1988 (Seoul), 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney) and 2012 (London).

Beijing in 2008

Seven of Reese’s current and former swimmers – including first-time Olympians Ricky Berens, Scott Spann, Dave Walters and Garrett Weber-Gale – joined Reese and accounted for about one-third of the 22-member USA team while capturing eight gold medals and one silver medal.

  • Weber-Gale joined Michael Phelps, Cullen Jones, and Jason Lezak to win his first gold medal and set a new world record in a thrilling 400m freestyle relay in Beijing,

  • Berens teamed up with Phelps, Ryan Lochte, and Peter Vanderkaay to win Olympic gold and become the first 800m freestyle relay quartet to eclipse the seven-minute barrier in the event.

  • Walters joined Berens in the 800m freestyle relay preliminary and also earned his first Olympic gold medal.

  • Weber-Gale added his second relay gold when he anchored Team USA’s 400m medley relay in the preliminary round, where he was joined by Ian Crocker, who swam the butterfly leg in the preliminary round to earn a gold medal.

  • Aaron Peirsol and Brendan Hansen swam the event’s backstroke and breaststroke legs in the finals, where Team USA won gold and set a new world record.

  • Peirsol, a three-time Olympian, collected his third career individual Olympic gold medal by setting a new world mark in the 100m backstroke, and he added a silver medal in the 200m backstroke. Hansen reached the 100m breaststroke finals, where he placed fourth, and Crocker took fourth in the 100m butterfly finals.

London – 2012

Three swimmers from UT traveled to London in 2012 with Reese, who served as an assistant coach for the U.S. men. Making the Olympics team in 2012 were:

  • Ricky Berens (200 freestyle, 400 freestyle relay and 800 freestyle relay), Jimmy Feigen (400 freestyle relay)

  • and Brendan Hansen (100 breaststroke).

  • Also, Christian Schurr qualified in the 200 breaststroke for Mexico. Individually,

  • Hansen won the bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke and added gold in the 400m medley relay.

  • Berens won gold in the 800m freestyle relay at a second consecutive Olympic Games, and Feigen joined Berens to win silver in the 400m freestyle relay.

Reese has coached a total of 26 Olympians who have gone on to win a combined 29 gold medals. His list of individual event gold medalists includes Brad Bridgewater, Rick Carey, Josh Davis, Hans Dersch, Gary Hall Jr., Chris Jacobs, Shaun Jordan, and Aaron Peirsol. Texassports.com paraphrased.

Adolph Kiefer, Berlin 1936 1 Gold

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Ed Gilbert, London 1948


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1980 Boycott, Los Angeles 1984 3 Gold


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Doug Gjertson, Seoul 1988 1 Gold Barcelona 1992 1 Gold, 1 Bronze


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Scott Goldblatt, Sydney 2000 1 Silver Athens 2004 1 Gold

Hans Dersch, Barcelona 1992 1 Gold

Josh Davis, Atlanta 1996 3 Gold Sydney 2000 2 Silver

Justin Dumais, Men’s Diving Athens 2004

Troy Dumais, Sydney 2000 Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, 1 Bronze

Nate Dusing, Sydney 2000 1 Silver Athens 2004 1 Bronze He was one of the University of Texas’s most versatile and outstanding swimmers. Nate was a member of two NCAA Championship teams (2000, 2001), an individual NCAA Champion in the 200 IM and 200 Back (2001), and a member of nine NCAA Championship relay teams while at Texas. Dusing represented the United States at two consecutive Summer Olympics. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, he earned a silver medal by swimming for the second-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, he received a bronze medal by swimming for the third-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay. He was also a member of gold medal-winning U.S. relay teams in the 4×100-meter freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships and the 2004 World Short Course Championships.


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Ian Crocker, Sydney 2000 1 Gold Athens 2004 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze Beijing 2008 1 Gold


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Jimmy Feigen, London 2012 1 Silver Rio 2016 1 Gold

 

 

 

 

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