Tom Bruce (swimmer)
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Full name | Thomas Edwin Bruce | |||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Tom" | |||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
Born | (1952-04-17)April 17, 1952 Red Bluff, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
Died | April 9, 2020(2020-04-09) (aged 67)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 161 lb (73 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Santa Clara Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Los Angeles | |||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Edwin Bruce (April 17, 1952 – April 9, 2020) was an American competitive swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Bruce was a graduate of Marian A. Peterson High School in Sunnyvale, California. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he swam for the UCLA Bruins swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. He represented the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. At Munich, he won a silver medal in the men's 100-meter breaststroke, and also earned a gold medal swimming the breaststroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Bruce, together with his relay teammates Mike Stamm (backstroke), Mark Spitz (butterfly) and Jerry Heidenreich (freestyle), set a new world record of 3:48.16.
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of University of California, Los Angeles people
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
References
- ^ Tom Bruce's obituary
External links
- Tom Bruce at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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