Tom Stock
Tom Stock is a retired American swimmer .
The back and position swimmer stick swam 10 world records .
After almost two months of performance training at Indiana University under coach James Counsilman , he was the first person to swim the 200 yard back in under 2 minutes. For 4 years, from 1960 to 1964, he held the world record over 200 m back and was unbeatable in this discipline. Its heyday began right after the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and ended shortly before the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo . In 1960 he did not get into the US Olympic team because he was only third best. In 1964 he was unable to take part in the Olympic Games because of a long illness .
In 1989 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame .
See also
- List of swimming world records over 200 meters back
- List of swimming world records over 100 meters back
Web links
- Tom floor in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
- iuhoosiers.cstv.com ( Memento from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Indiana Hoosiers (English; PDF; 1.4 MB)
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| SURNAME | Stock, Tom |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |