Bill May
Bill May 
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| Surname: | Bill May | |||||||||
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| Swimming style (s) : | Synchronized swimming | |||||||||
| Birthday: | January 18, 1979 | |||||||||
| Size: | 1.75 m | |||||||||
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Bill May (born January 18, 1979 ) is an American synchronized swimmer . He is the first male synchronized swimmer to win a gold medal at the World Swimming Championships . This was only possible after the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) released the limited participation of men in this sport in 2014 for the mixed duet discipline.
Fight for approval
Contrary to his efforts, Bill May was not admitted to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Even before that, he was denied participation in the Pan American Games in 1999 .
Successes in Kazan 2015
After ten years of retirement, May took part in the first two mixed duet competitions of the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia. He started with Kristina Lum-Underwood in the technical and with Christina Jones in the free program. In the technical program he won the gold medal with Jones with 88.5108 points ahead of the Russians Darina Walitowa and Alexander Malzew (88.2986) and the Italians Manila Flamini and Giorgio Minisini (86.3640). In the free program, the Russian couple reversed the order and won with 91.7333 points ahead of Lum-Underwood and May (91.4667), who in turn relegated the Italians Mariangela Perrupato and Giorgio Minisini (89.3333) to bronze.
Web links
- Men with make-up fight for recognition: A dream come true for synchronized swimmers with their World Cup debut , watson.ch from July 26, 2015, accessed February 13, 2016
- Swimming World Cup in Kazan - The gender roles are blurring synchronously , sportschau.de from July 26, 2015, accessed February 13, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bill May - The first world champion in synchronized swimming , 20min.ch
- ↑ FINA to introduce mixed gender events in diving and synchronized swimming insidethegames.biz
- ↑ Male synchronized swimmer not allowed to compete in Olympics ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , wistv.com
- ^ Synch Different , metroactive.com
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| SURNAME | May, Bill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American synchronized swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1979 |