Pablo Morales
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Full name | Pedro Pablo Morales, Jr. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Chicago, Illinois | December 5, 1964|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 187 lb (85 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pedro Pablo Morales, Jr. (born December 5, 1964) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and former world record-holder. He won a relay gold and two silver medals swimming butterfly at the 1984 Summer Olympics and set the world record in the 100-meter butterfly at the Olympic Trials that year as well as setting relay records with teammates Rick Carey, Steve Lundquist and Rowdy Gaines.
Morales attended Bellarmine College Preparatory, in San Jose, California, trained under the supervision of Larry Rogers. In 1988 on the heels of a record 11th National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) individual championship at Stanford University, he failed to qualify for the 1988 Summer Olympics. After briefly retiring from the sport to pursue a law degree at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, he returned to the Olympics in 1992 as the team captain and captured gold in the 100-meter butterfly. He is currently the head women's swimming and diving coach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
See also
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
- List of notable Cuban-Americans
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of Stanford University people
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 100 metres butterfly
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
External links
- Pablo Morales – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
- Pablo Morales (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame
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Preceded by Matt Gribble |
Men's 100-meter butterfly world record-holder (long course) June 26, 1984 – July 30, 1984 |
Succeeded by Michael Gross |
Preceded by Michael Gross |
Men's 100-meter butterfly world record-holder (long course) June 23, 1986 – August 23, 1995 |
Succeeded by Denis Pankratov |