Michael MacKay Austin (born August 26, 1943) is a retired American swimmer. He represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay with teammates Steve Clark, Gary Ilman and Don Schollander, setting a new world record of 3:33.2.[2] Individually, he placed sixth in the 100 m freestyle with a time of 54.5 seconds.[3]
 Schollander, Ilman, Austin and Clark display gold medals at 1964 Olympics | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Michael MacKay Austin | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Mike" | ||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Born | August 26, 1943 West Orange, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 187 lb (85 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
| Club | New Haven Swim Club[1] | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Yale University | ||||||||||||||
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Austin attended Yale University, where he swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Ivy League competition from 1962 to 1964. In August 1963, swimming with the New Haven Swim Club during a summer break, he came in second in the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 55.2 at the National AAU Outdoor Meet in Chicago.[1] In inter-collegiate National competition with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, he won the 50-yard freestyle in 1964 and helped Yale win the 4x100 yard free relay in both 1963 and 1964.[4] He graduated from Yale with his bachelor's degree in 1964. Austin donated his Olympic gold medal to his alma mater in 2006.[4]
In later years, he worked in the financial field, where he labored overseas for many years before coming back to America and taking a position as CFO for Cambridge, Massachusetts's Strategic Science and Technologies LLC, currently a biotechnology company.[4]
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References edit
- ^ a b "Roth Snares Swim Title", Press of Atlantic City, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 12 August 1963, pg. 19
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 4×100 metres freestyle relay". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mike Austin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Olympedia Bio, Mike Austin". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved November 3, 2023.
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Media related to Mike Austin (swimmer) at Wikimedia Commons- Michael MacKay Austin at World Aquatics
- Michael MacKay Austin at Olympics.com
- Mike Austin at Olympedia
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