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Don Schollander
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men’s Swimming | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 1964 Tokyo | 100m Freestyle | |
| Gold | 1964 Tokyo | 400m Freestyle | |
| Gold | 1964 Tokyo | 4x100m Freestyle Relay | |
| Gold | 1964 Tokyo | 4x200m Freestyle Relay | |
| Gold | 1968 Mexico City | 4x200m Freestyle Relay | |
| Silver | 1968 Mexico City | 200m Freestyle | |
Donald ("Don") Arthur Schollander (born April 30, 1946) is an American former swimmer.
He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon. He started age-group swimming very young and was already a super-star type at age 11. As a teenager in 1962 he moved to Santa Clara, California to train under swim coach George Haines. Two years later at 18 years old, he won two freestlye events in the National AAU indoor meet, setting American records both times, then became a triple winner with two world records in the outdoor meet. He made the U.S. Olympic team in two individual events and two relays. Months later he won four gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was the first American to accomplish this feat since track star Jesse Owens in 1936. His success helped earn him the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States, as well as being named as ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year.
He attended college at Yale University and was a member of the both Skull and Bones secret society and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity along with president George W. Bush. While in college, he was captain of Yale's team and won three gold medals at the 1968 NCAA championships. The same year he won one gold and one silver medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
In 1983 he was one of the first group of inductees into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. He is also a member of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame
Schollander currently resides in Oregon where he runs a real estate development company. His Gold Medals are on display to the public at a Bank of America branch location on Fourth Street in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
| Preceded by R. Malcolm Graham Robert A. Griese Floyd Little James R. Lynch Alan C. Page Ricardo M. Urbina |
Silver Anniversary Awards (NCAA) Class of 1993 Dick Anderson Bob Johnson Donna A. Lopiano Donald A. Schollander Stan Smith Wyomia Tyus |
Succeeded by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Lee Evans Calvin Hill William C. Hurd Leroy Keyes Jim Ryun |
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| Olympic champions in men's 100 m freestyle |
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| 1896: Alfréd Hajós | 1906: Charles Daniels | 1908: Charles Daniels | 1912: Duke Paoa Kahanamoku | 1920: Duke Paoa Kahanamoku | 1924: Johnny Weissmuller | 1928: Johnny Weissmuller | 1932: Yasuji Miyazaki | 1936: Ferenc Csík | 1948: Walter Ris | 1952: Clarke Scholes | 1956: Jon Henricks | 1960: John Devitt | 1964: Don Schollander | 1968: Michael Wenden | 1972: Mark Spitz | 1976: Jim Montgomery | 1980: Jörg Woithe | 1984: Rowdy Gaines | 1988: Matt Biondi | 1992: Alexander Popov | 1996: Alexander Popov | 2000: Pieter van den Hoogenband | 2004: Pieter van den Hoogenband |
| Olympic champions in men's 400 m freestyle |
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| 1906: Otto Scheff | 1908: Henry Taylor | 1912: George Hodgson | 1920: Norman Ross | 1924: Johnny Weissmuller | 1928: Alberto Zorrilla | 1932: Buster Crabbe | 1936: Jack Medica | 1948: William Smith | 1952: Jean Boiteux | 1956: Murray Rose | 1960: Murray Rose | 1964: Don Schollander | 1968: Mike Burton | 1972: Brad Cooper | 1976: Brian Goodell | 1980: Vladimir Salnikov | 1984: George DiCarlo | 1988: Uwe Daßler | 1992: Yevgeny Sadovyi | 1996: Danyon Loader | 2000: Ian Thorpe | 2004: Ian Thorpe |
1908 Great Britain - John Henry Derbyshire, Paul Radmilovic, William Foster, Henry Taylor
1912 Australasia - Cecil Healy, Malcolm Champion, Leslie Boardman, Harold Hardwick
1920 United States - Perry McGilivray, Pua Kela Kealoha, Norman Ross, Duke Kahanamoku
1924 United States - Johnny Weissmuller, Walter O'Connor, Harry Glancy, Ralph Breyer
1928 United States - Johnny Weissmuller, Austin Clapp, Walter Laufer, George Kojac
1932 Japan - Masonori Yusa, Yasuji Miyazaki, Takashi Yomoyama, Hisakichi Toyoda
1936 Japan - Masanori Yusa, Shigeo Suguira, Shigeo Arai, Masaharu Taguchi
1948 United States - Walter Ris, James McLane, Wallace Wolf, William Smith
1952 United States - Wayne Moore, William Woolsey, Ford Konno, James McLane
1956 Australia - Kevin O'Halloran, John Devitt, Murray Rose, Jon Henricks
1960 United States - George Harrison, Richard Blick, Michael Troy, Jeffrey Farrell
1964 United States - Don Schollander, Stephen Clark, Roy Saari, Gary Ilman
1968 United States - Don Schollander, Mark Spitz, John Nelson, Stephen Rerych
1972 United States - Mark Spitz, John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter
1976 United States - Mike Bruner, Bruce Furniss, John Naber, Jim Montgomery
1980 Soviet Union - Sergei Kopliakov, Vladimir Salnikov, Ivar Stukolkin, Andrei Krylov
1984 United States - Michael Heath, David Larson, Jeffrey Float, Bruce Hayes
1988 United States - Troy Dalbey, Matthew Cetlinski, Doug Gjertsen, Matt Biondi
1992 Unified Team - Dmitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychnenko, Veniamin Taianovich, Yevgeny Sadovyi
1996 United States - Josh Davis, Joe Hudepohl, Bradley Schumacher, Ryan Berube
2000 Australia - Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim, Todd Pearson, Bill Kirby
2004 United States - Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Peter Vanderkaay, Klete Keller
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