While perusing the heat sheets for next week's Nationals, I saw a familiar name: Claudia Poll, an Olympic gold-medalist from Costa Rica. I'm excited to see her swim.
I got to wondering... how many other Olympians are entered in the meet? Not having grown up swimming I am sure that there are a lot of names I didn't catch. Please add to my list! The meet roster can be found here.
The ones I have found so far are:
Claudia Poll
Rowdy Gaines
Chris Stevenson
Jim Montgomery
Former Member
was chris an olympian?
Ande
Greece, 1984 (and maybe 88 too).
Oyakawa, Yoshi
en.wikipedia.org/.../Yoshinobu_Oyakawa
Yoshinobu ("Yoshi") Oyakawa won the 100m Backstroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
He is considered to be the last of the great "straight-arm-pull" backstrokers
USA swimming has a posting listing all the olympians:
www.usaswimming.org/.../alltime_olympians.pdf
If you think someone was an Olympian, you can check this listings. Not sure if they list the 1980 team members, but hope they do.
