Anthony Ervin
Ervin (right) with Vladimir Morozov at the 2015 World Championships
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| Full name | Anthony Lee Ervin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Tony" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 United States
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May 26, 1981 Valencia, California |
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| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 175 lb (79 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | AnthonyErvin |
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of California, Berkeley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anthony Lee Ervin (born May 26, 1981) is an American competition swimmer who has won four Olympic medals and two World Championship golds. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the men's 50-meter freestyle, and earned a silver medal as a member of the second-place United States relay team in the 4×100-meter freestyle event. He was the second swimmer of African descent after Anthony Nesty of Suriname to win an individual gold medal in Olympic swimming. He is the first United States citizen of African descent to medal gold in an individual Olympic swimming event.
Ervin stopped swimming competitively at the age of 22 in 2003 and auctioned off his 2000 Olympic gold medal on eBay to aid survivors of the 2004 tsunami, but he began to train again in 2011.
Ervin competed in the 50-meter freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics where he placed fifth. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in the event for the second time.
Ervin is African-American and Jewish, and was born in Hollywood. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent on his mother's side and African-American descent on his father's. He was raised in Valencia, California. Ervin has described himself as a "practicing Zen Buddhist".
While living in Santa Clarita, he swam for Canyons Aquatic Club, and also competed on the Hart High School's swim team in Newhall, California. Anthony enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his bachelor's degree in English in 2010.
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