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Full name | William Norval Craig | ||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | "Bill" | ||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Culver City, California |
January 16, 1945||||||||||||||||||
Died | January 1, 2017 | (aged 71)||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Southern California | ||||||||||||||||||
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William Norval Craig (January 16, 1945 – January 1, 2017) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder. He represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he won a gold medal as swimming the breaststroke leg for the first-place U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Craig and his teammates Thompson Mann (backstroke), Fred Schmidt (butterfly) and Steve Clark (freestyle) set a new medley relay world record of 3:58.4. Craig attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he swam for the USC Trojans swimming and diving team.