Charles Hickcox

Charles Buchanan "Charlie" Hickcox (born February 6, 1947 in Phoenix , Arizona , † June 15, 2010 in San Diego , California ) was an American swimmer .

At the beginning of his career he only won one national title over the 400 m individual medley . It was therefore surprising that the back swimmer Hickcox won the gold medal in the 200 m and 400 m medley at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico . In addition, he was Olympic champion with the 4 × 100 m layer relay of the Americans . Over 100 m back he won the silver medal .

The following year he retired from competitive sports and became a television commentator and coach. In 1976 he was inducted into the international swimming sport hall of fame .

Hickcox reached the peak of his career between 1967 and 1968 when he swam 8 world records within 16 months. During this time he trained at Indiana University under coach James Counsilman .

Web links

• Charles Hickcox in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
• Short biography of Charles Hickcox ( memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at Hickok Sports (English)
• sportsillustrated.cnn.com (English)
• www.azcentral.com (English)
• Hoosier Olympians (English; PDF; 836 kB)

References

1. ↑ Charlie Hickox in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
2. ↑ [1] www.sport-komplett.de
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2013 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. www.swimmingworldmagazine.com (English)  
4. ↑ [2] Indiana University Archives (English)