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Don Schollander

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NameDon Schollander
Full nameDonald Arthur Schollander
Nicknames"Don"
NationalityUnited States
StrokesFreestyle
ClubSanta Clara Swim Club
Height1.80 m
Weight79 kg (174.2 lb)

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Donald ("Don") Arthur Schollander (born April 30, 1946) is a former Olympic swimmer for the United States. He won total of five gold medals and a silver medals at the Summer Olympics. With four gold medals, he was the most successful athlete at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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14-16.10.1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, Swimming, Men: 400m Free, 4×100m Free Relay, 4×100m Medley Relay, 200m Breaststroke. Great history of sport. Russian comment. Results - www.todor66.com and www.sports-reference.com --- Don Schollander In 1964, American Don Schollander became the first swimmer to win four gold medals at one Olympic Games. His victories came in the 100 and 400 metre freestyles and in both relays, and in all but the 100 metres he set a world record. He was unfortunate that the 200 metres was not on the program at the Tokyo Games as he eventually set nine world records between 1963 and 1968 at this, his best distance. Schollander also posted three world records at 400 metres and shared in eight world records in the freestyle relays. At the 1968 Games he was unable to defend his 100 metres and 400 metres Olympic titles as he failed to make the US team at these distances, but he won his fifth gold in the 4 x 200 metres relay and took the silver in the 200 metre freestyle. His other titles included three golds at the 1967 Pan-American Games, in the 200 free and both relays, and the following AAU Outdoor titles: 110 yards -- 1964, 1966-67; 200 metres/220 yards -- 1962-64, 1966-67; and 440 yards -- 1963-64 and 1966. --- Steve Clark In 1960, while still attending Los Altos High School, Steve Clark made the Olympic team and swam in the heats of both relay events. He then attended Yale, and while there won five NCAA titles and took six individual and five AAU relay <b>...</b>
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1964 4x olympic gold medallist Don Schollander appears on "To Tell the Truth"
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Blue Springs Examiner--My quote of the week is from five-time Olympic gold medalist -Don Schollander-: “I enjoy doing things that people don't think I can do. ... - Date : Sat, 27 Nov 2010 06:41:41 GMT+00:00
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RMC.fr--Seul -Donald Schollander- en 1964 a remporté le 100 m et le 400 m lors des Jeux de 1964. Alors recordman du monde, il n'avait pas pris part au 200 m, ... - Date : Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:01:29 GMT+00:00
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AG Week--14 and 15 at the -Schollander- Pavilion on the Red River Valley Fairgrounds in West Fargo. The Sheyenne Valley Team Penning, an American Quarter Horse ... - Date : Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:35:53 GMT+00:00
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The Spoof (satire)--As -Don Schollander-, visiting paleontologist from USC, drove towards the famed Alberta Dinosaur diggings a bee blew into the window of his pickup. ... - Date : Thu, 27 May 2010 09:29:24 GMT+00:00

Preceded by
Sandy Koufax
Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year
1964
Succeeded by
Sandy Koufax
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

Medal Record
Men's swimming
Competitor for the United States
Olympic Games
Gold1964 Tokyo100 m freestyle
Gold1964 Tokyo400 m freestyle
Gold1964 Tokyo4x100 m freestyle
Gold1964 Tokyo4x200 m freestyle
Gold1968 Mexico City4x200 m freestyle
Silver1968 Mexico City200 m freestyle
Pan American Games
Gold1967 Winnipeg200 m freestyle
Gold1967 Winnipeg4x100 m freestyle
Gold1967 Winnipeg4x200 m freestyle

Olympic Champions in Men's 100 m Freestyle

1896: Alfréd Hajós * 1904: (100 yards) Zoltán Halmay * 1906: Charles Daniels * 1908: Charles Daniels * 1912: Duke Kahanamoku * 1920: Duke 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 * 2008: Alain Bernard

Olympic Champions in Men's 400 m Freestyle

1904: (440 yards) Charles Daniels * 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 * 2008: Park Tae-Hwan

Olympic Champions in Men's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1964: USA (Clark, Austin, Ilman, Schollander) * 1968: USA (Zorn, Rerych, Spitz, Walsh) * 1972: USA (Edgar, Murphy, Heidenreich, Spitz) * 1984: USA (Cavanaugh, Heath, Biondi, Gaines) * 1988: USA (Jacobs, Dalbey, Jager, Biondi) * 1992: USA (Hudepohl, Biondi, Jager, Olsen) * 1996: USA (Olsen, Davis, Schumacher, Hall, Jr.) * 2000: Australia (Klim, Fydler, Callus, Thorpe) * 2004: South Africa (Schoeman, Ferns, Townsend, Neethling) * 2008: USA (Phelps, Weber-Gale, Jones, Lezak)

Olympic Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1908: Great Britain (Derbyshire, Radimilovic, Foster, Taylor) * 1912: Australasia (Healy, Champion, Boardman, Hardwick) * 1920: USA (McGillivray, Kealoha, Ross, Kahanamoku) * 1924: USA (Weissmuller, O'Connor, Glancy, Breyer) * 1928: USA (Weissmuller, Clapp, Laufer, Kojac) * 1932: Japan (Yusa, Miyazaki, Yokoyama, Toyoda) * 1936: Japan (Yusa, Sugiura, Arai, Taguchi) * 1948: USA (Ris, McLane, Wolf, Smith) * 1952: USA (Moore, Woolsey, Konno, McLane) * 1956: Australia (O'Halloran, Devitt, Rose, Henricks) * 1960: USA (Harrison, Blick, Troy, Farrell) * 1964: USA (Schollander, Clark, Saari, Ilman) * 1968: USA (Schollander, Spitz, Nelson, Rerych) * 1972: USA (Spitz, Kinsella, Tyler, Genter) * 1976: USA (Bruner, Furniss, Naber, Montgomery) * 1980: Soviet Union (Kopliakov, Salnikov, Stukolkin, Krylov) * 1984: USA (Heath, Larson, Float, Hayes) * 1988: USA (Dalbey, Cetlinski, Gjertsen, Biondi) * 1992: Unified Team (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Tayanovich, Sadovyi) * 1996: USA (Davis, Hudepohl, Schumacher, Berube) * 2000: Australia (Thorpe, Klim, Pearson, Kirby) * 2004: USA (Phelps, Lochte, Vanderkaay, Keller) * 2008: USA (Phelps, Lochte, Berens, Vanderkaay)

Pan American Champions in Men's 200 m Freestyle

1967: Don Schollander * 1971: Frank Heckl * 1975: Jorge Delgado * 1979: Rowdy Gaines * 1983: Bruce Hayes * 1987: John Witchell * 1991: Eric Diehl * 1995: Gustavo Borges * 1999: Gustavo Borges * 2003: George Bovell * 2007: Matthew Owen

Pan American Champions in Men's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1967: United States (Walsh, Fitzmaurice, Spitz, Schollander) * 1971: United States (Edgar, Genter, Heidenreich, Heckl) * 1975: United States (Babashoff, Ruby, Grattan, Abbott) * 1979: United States (Gaines, Babashoff, Newton, McCagg) * 1983: United States (Leamy, Gribble, Cavanaugh, Gaines) * 1987: United States (Born, McCadam, Robinson, Dudley) * 1991: Brazil (Ferreira, Nascimento, Rebolal, Borges) * 1995: United States (Hall, Jager, Davis, Olsen) * 1999: Brazil (Scherer, Quintaes, Cordeiro, Borges) * 2003: Brazil (Jayme, Borges, Scherer, Souza) * 2007: Brazil (Silva, Deboni, Oliveira, Cielo)

Pan American Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1951: United States (Gora, Jones, Cleveland, Heusner) * 1955: United States (Smith, Yorzyk, Moore, McLane) * 1959: United States (Blick, Sintz, Rounsavelle, Winters) * 1963: United States (Ilman, McDonough, Lyons, Townsend) * 1967: United States (Schollander, Hickcox, Charlton, Spitz) * 1971: United States (Heidenreich, McConica, Genter, Heckl) * 1975: United States (DeMont, Favero, Horner, Curington) * 1979: United States (Goodell, Larson, Kirshner, Gaines) * 1983: United States (Larson, Saeger, Hayes, Gaines) * 1987: United States (Robinson, Jones, O'Brien, Witchell) * 1991: United States (Keppeler, Wells, Tippins, Diehl) * 1995: United States (Olsen, Davis, Berube, Burgess) * 1999: United States (Messner, Phillips, Howard, Tucker) * 2003: United States (Lochte, Goldberg, Lee, Ketchum) * 2007: Brazil (Pereira, Castro, Salatta, Oliveira)

Sullivan Award winners

1930: Jones * 1931: Berlinger * 1932: Bausch * 1933: Cunningham * 1934: Bonthron * 1935: Little * 1936: Morris * 1937: Budge * 1938: Lash * 1939: Burk * 1940: Rice * 1941: MacMitchell * 1942: Warmerdam * 1943: Dodds * 1944: Curtis * 1945: Blanchard * 1946: Tucker * 1947: Kelly * 1948: Mathias * 1949: Button * 1950: Wilt * 1951: Richards * 1952: Ashenfelter * 1953: Lee * 1954: Whitfield * 1955: Dillard * 1956: McCormick * 1957: Morrow * 1958: Davis * 1959: O'Brien * 1960: Johnson * 1961: Rudolph * 1962: Beatty * 1963: Pennel * 1964: Schollander * 1965: Bradley * 1966: Ryun * 1967: Matson * 1968: Meyer * 1969: Toomey * 1970: Kinsella * 1971: Spitz * 1972: Shorter * 1973: Walton * 1974: Wohlhuter * 1975: Shaw * 1976: Jenner * 1977: Naber * 1978: Caulkins * 1979: Thomas * 1980: Heiden * 1981: Lewis * 1982: Decker * 1983: Moses * 1984: Louganis * 1985: Benoit * 1986: Joyner-Kersee * 1987: Abbott * 1988: Griffith-Joyner * 1989: Evans * 1990: Smith * 1991: Powell * 1992: Blair * 1993: Ward * 1994: Jansen * 1995: Baumgartner * 1996: Johnson * 1997: Manning * 1998: Holdsclaw * 1999: C. Miller & K. Miller * 2000: Gardner * 2001: Kwan * 2002: Hughes * 2003: Phelps * 2004: Hamm * 2005: Redick * 2006: Long * 2007: Tebow * 2008: Johnson * 2009: Palmeiro-Winters



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