Ryan Lochte

Ryan Lochte
Ryan Lochte (2013)
Personal information
Surname:	Ryan Steven Lochte
Nickname (s):	Reezy, The Lochtenator
Nation:	United States
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle , layers , back , butterfly
Society:	Daytona Beach Speed ​​Swimming
Birthday:	3rd August 1984 (age 36)
Place of birth:	Rochester , New York
Size:	1.88 m
Weight:	88 kg
Medal table
Olympic games 6 × 3 × 3 × World championships 18 × 6 × 4 × WM short course 21 × 10 × 7 × Pan Pacific Champs 8 × 4 × 0 × Pan American Games 1 × 0 × 0 × total 54 × 23 × 14 ×

Ryan Steven Lochte (born August 3, 1984 in Rochester , New York ) is an American swimmer . He was banned from a doping offense until July 2019.

Life

Ryan Lochte was born in Rochester, New York. He went to Spruce Creek High School in Port Orange , Florida . He received an athletic scholarship from the University of Florida in Gainesville , Florida, where he competed for Gregg Troy 's Florida Gators Swimming and Diving Team at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC) from 2003 to 2006 . He lives and trains in Gainesville. Lochte is very versatile and is swimming in international competitions both freestyle and back , butterfly and documents . Lochte has a contract with Ford Modeling Agency and has already modeled for Speedo and GQ .

Sporting successes

2004

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , Lochte won gold together with Michael Phelps , Peter Vanderkaay and Klete Keller in the victorious American 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, which also set a new American record with 7: 07.33 minutes. He also won silver over 200 meters behind superstar Michael Phelps.

2005

At the 2005 World Swimming Championships in Montreal , Lochte won gold with Michael Phelps , Peter Vanderkaay and Klete Keller in the American 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. In addition, he won bronze over 200 meters behind the superior winner Aaron Peirsol and the Austrian Markus Rogan . Lochte also won bronze in the 200 meter medley behind the American Michael Phelps and the Hungarian László Cseh , while he was only fifth over 400 meter medley.

2007

At the 2007 Swimming World Championships in Melbourne , Lochte won gold over 200 meters back in a world record time (1: 54.32 min) ahead of Aaron Peirsol and together with Michael Phelps, Peter Vanderkaay and Klete Keller also gold in the American 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, which at the same time set a new world record with 7: 03.24 min . Over 100 meters back he won silver behind Aaron Peirsol, although Lochte set a new world championship record in the semi-finals. Lochte was able to win two silver medals over the medley courses: 200 and 400 meter medley, each behind Michael Phelps.

2008

At the Olympic Games in Beijing , Lochte won the bronze medal both over 200 and over 400 meters behind Michael Phelps, who swam world records twice, and László Cseh, who set a new European record in both races. In the 200-meter race, he was a hundredth of a second short of silver. With the American 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, he set a new world record with Michael Phelps, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay with 6: 58.56 minutes and won the gold medal. The American season was the first to achieve a time under seven minutes. He also won gold over the 200 m back, where he also set a new world record with 1: 53.94 min.

2009

At the swimming world championships in Rome in 2009 he won the gold medal with Phelps, Matt Grevers, and Nathan Adrian with the American 4 × 100 m freestyle relay with a new world championship record of 3: 09.21 min. Phelps did not start in the individual medley competitions at these world championships. Lochte took advantage of Phelps' absence in the two individual medley races and won gold medals in both the 200 and 400 m individual medals. On the 200-meter course, he set a new world record with 1: 54.10 minutes. Over 200 meters back he won the bronze medal behind Peirsol and the Japanese Ryosuke Irie . He won another gold medal in a new world record time of 6: 58.55 minutes with the American 4 × 200 m freestyle relay together with Phelps, Ricky Berens and David Walters.

2010

At the Short Course World Championships in Dubai , Ryan Lochte was the most successful swimmer with six gold and one silver medal. Nobody had previously won seven medals at short course world championships. He won gold in the 200 m freestyle, 200 m back, 100, 200 (new world record in 1: 50.08 min) and 400 m medley (new world record in 3: 55.50 min) and with the 4 × 100 m Layer scale. He won silver with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, which Russia had to admit defeat. His world records were the first since the abolition of swimming suits.

He was named world swimmer of the year by the American magazine Swimming World.

2011

At the 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai , he won one bronze and five gold medals. He won bronze with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay because he had participated in the preliminary run. He won gold in the 200 m freestyle (in front of Phelps and Paul Biedermann ), 200 m back (in front of Ryosuke Irie and Tyler Clary ), 200 m medley (in front of Phelps and László Cseh with a new world record of 1: 54.00 min), 400 m Lagen (before Scott Tyler Clary and Yūya Horihata) and with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay with Phelps, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay. His world record was the first on the long track since the abolition of swimming suits.

He was again World Swimmer of the Year.

2012

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Lochte won five medals and was fourth in the 200 m freestyle. He won bronze over 200 m back behind Tyler Clary and Ryōsuke Irie. He won silver with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay with Phelps, Cullen Jones and Nathan Adrian , which was beaten by France, and over 200 m individual medley behind Phelps and before Cseh. He won gold in over 400 m individual medley from Thiago Pereira and Kōsuke Hagino and with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay with Conor Dwyer, Ricky Berens and Michael Phelps before France and China.

At the short course world championships in Istanbul he won bronze over 100 m butterfly, silver over 200 m back and six gold medals over 200 m freestyle, 100 m medley (world record in the semifinals in 50.71 min), 200 m medley (world record in 1:49, 63 min), 4 × 100 m freestyle, 4 × 200 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley. With these eight medals, he set a record for short course world championships.

2013

At the 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona , he took silver in the 4 100 m freestyle relay with Nathan Adrian, Anthony Ervin and James Feigen behind France. With the 4,200 m freestyle relay, he won the gold medal with Conor Dwyer, Charles Gipson Houchin and Ricky Berens ahead of Russia and China. He also won gold over 200 m backwards in front of Radosław Kawęcki and Tyler Clary and over 200 m individual medley in front of Kōsuke Hagino and Thiago Pereira . He took fourth place in the 200 m freestyle.

2014

At the short course world championships in Doha he won three bronze medals (200 m freestyle, 100 m medley and 4 × 100 m freestyle), four silver medals (200 m back, 200 m medley, 4 × 50 m freestyle, 4 × 100 m m layers) and a gold medal with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay.

2015

Lochte started at the World Swimming Championships in Kazan for the sixth time at the world championships on the long track. Having won the gold medal on the 200 m individual medley course, he is the only swimmer alongside Grant Hackett to have won gold in the same discipline at four consecutive world championships. He also got the gold medal for his preliminary participation in 4 × 100 m individual medley and with the 4 × 100 m freestyle mixed relay with Nathan Adrian, Simone Manuel and Missy Franklin. He won silver with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay and the mixed relay over 4 × 100 m individual medley. He finished fourth in the 200 m freestyle.

2016

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he reached the final for the fourth time in a row in the 200 m individual medley, but did not win a medal for the first time with fifth place. By winning the gold medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle with Michael Phelps, Townley Haas and Conor Dwyer, the number of his Olympic medals rose to 12. He has the second most medals in male swimmers of all time, only surpassed by Michael Phelps.

Robbery Affair 2016

Lochte made negative headlines when he claimed to have been attacked during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, which after an official investigation turned out to be a lie. Lochte and his teammates Jimmy Feigen, Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger had rioted at a gas station and, when confronted with it, claimed to have been mugged. In fact, they were prevented from escaping by a security guard with a gun. After paying a small sum for the damage done, they were allowed to leave. Conger and Bentz admitted to the police that they had been persuaded by Lochte to support the robbery story in order to cover up their wrongdoing. Ryan Lochte made a statement on Twitter regretting his behavior but still insisting that he had been mugged.

Because of this incident, his long-time sponsor Speedo and the companies Ralph Lauren , Airweave and Syneron Candela declared that they would no longer support him. It is estimated that Lochte's financial loss could be well over a million dollars. He has also been charged with false reports in Brazil. The US Swimming Association and the US National Olympic Committee banned Lochte for ten months. In addition, he had to repay his bonus for winning the gold medal with the relay, does not receive any national funding during these ten months and has to do 20 hours of community service. He was also not allowed to attend the Olympic team reception at the White House. Nevertheless, he announced that he wanted to participate in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Doping ban 2018

On May 24, 2018, Lochte posted a photo showing him undergoing an intravenous transfusion. According to the statutes of the American Anti-Doping Agency ( USADA ), such infusions are only permitted for athletes in certain situations that did not exist in this case. The USADA announced on July 23, 2018 that no prohibited doping substance had been used in the infusion and that Lochte was retroactively suspended for 14 months until July 2019 because of this doping violation.

Records

World records (4)
200 m layers	01: 54.00 min	July 28, 2011	Shanghai
4 × 200 m freestyle (with Phelps , Berens and Walters )	06: 58.55 min	July 31, 2009	Rome
4 × 100 m freestyle mixed relay (with Nathan Adrian , Simone Manuel and Missy Franklin )	03: 23.05 min	August 8, 2015	Kazan
200 m layers (short course)	01: 49.63 min	December 14, 2012	Istanbul
American Records (10)
200 m layers	01: 54.00 min	July 28, 2011	Shanghai
4 × 200 m freestyle (with Phelps , Berens and Walters )	06: 58.55 min	July 31, 2009	Rome
200 m freestyle (short course)	01: 41.08 min	December 15, 2010	Dubai
100 m layers (short course)	00: 50.71 min	December 15, 2012	Istanbul
200 m layers (short course)	01: 49.63 min	December 14, 2012	Istanbul
400 m layers (short course)	03: 55.50 min	December 16, 2010	Dubai
200 m back (short course)	01: 47.91 min	April 13, 2006	Manchester
4 × 100 m freestyle (short course) (with N. Adrian, G. Weber-Gale and R. Berens)	03: 06.10 min	December 15, 2010	Dubai
4 × 200 m freestyle (short course) (with P. Vanderkaay, G. Weber-Gale and R. Berens)	06: 49.58 min	December 16, 2010	Dubai
4 × 100 m layers (short course) (with N. Thoman, M. Alexanadrov and G. Weber-Gale)	03: 20.99 min	December 19, 2010	Dubai
US Open Records (6)
200 m layers	01: 54.56 min	July 10, 2009	Indianapolis
4 × 100 m freestyle (with M. Phelps, J. Lezak and N. Adrian)	03: 11.74 min	August 20, 2010	Irvine
4 × 200 m freestyle (with M. Phelps, P. Vanderkaay and R. Berens)	07: 03.84 min	August 20, 2010	Irvine
200 m back (short course)	01: 48.90 min	December 17, 2011	Atlanta
200 m layers (short course)	01: 52.98 min	December 17, 2011	Atlanta
400 m layers (short course)	03: 59.52 min	December 16, 2011	Atlanta
(As of August 18, 2016)

Ryan Lochte (left) on August 10, 2008 at the Beijing Olympics

Web links

Commons : Ryan Lochte  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Ryan Lochte (English)
• Ryan Lochte in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Ryan Lochte in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Biography of Lochte in the US Olympic team (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lochte's lie: US quartet threatens detention Sport1.de, August 19, 2016.
2. ↑ US swimming star confused with half-hearted apology Die Welt online, August 19, 2016.
3. ↑ After Olympic trouble: US swimmer Ryan Lochte loses further sponsors after lying in Rio ( memento of the original from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. gmx.net, August 23, 2016. 
4. ↑ Lügen-Lochte is charged. (No longer available online.) Gmx.net, August 26, 2016, archived from the original on August 26, 2016 ; Retrieved August 26, 2016 . 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.  
5. ↑ Lochte accepts a ten-month ban. spiegel.de, September 8, 2016, accessed on September 8, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Lochte wants to start in Tokyo in 2020. spiegel.de, September 12, 2016, accessed on September 12, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Doping ban for US Olympic champion Lochte - A fateful photo (July 24, 2018)
8. ↑ Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte banned 14 months for IV infusion . In: USA TODAY . ( usatoday.com [accessed July 23, 2018]).
9. ↑ The Associated Press: Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte suspended until July 2019 . In: Colorado Springs Gazette . ( gazette.com [accessed July 23, 2018]).