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 2 in (1.88 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 competitiveswimmer.He setworld recordsin the 100-meterbutterflyin 1984 and 1986. He was the 100-meter butterfly gold medalist at the1992 Olympic Games,as well as winning 4 × 100 meter medley relay gold medals at both the1984and 1992 Olympic Games. He also won 100-meter butterfly and 4 × 100 meter medley relay gold medals at the1986 World Championships.
Biography[edit]
Morales attendedBellarmine College Preparatory,inSan Jose, California,and trained under the supervision of Larry Rogers.
Morales won a relay gold and two silver medals swimming butterfly at the 1984 Olympics inLos Angelesand set the world record in the 100-meter butterfly at the US Olympic Trials that year with a time of 53.38 seconds, breaking the former record of American Olympic teammateMatt Gribble,who finished second. At the trials, Morales also set relay records with teammatesRick Carey,Steve LundquistandRowdy Gaines.After losing the 100-meter butterfly world record to German swimmerMichael Grossin 1984, he regained it in 1986 with a swim of 52.84 seconds. This record stood until 1995.
In 1988, on the heels of a record 11thNational Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA) individual championship atStanford University,Morales surprisingly failed to qualify for the1988 Olympics.
After briefly retiring from the sport to pursue aJDdegree atCornell Law SchoolinIthaca, New York,Morales returned to swimming and qualified for the 1992 Olympics inBarcelona,where he was the US team captain and captured gold in the 100-meter butterfly.
Coaching career[edit]
Morales is currently the head women's swimming and diving coach at theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln.
See also[edit]
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- 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[edit]
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;Mallon, Bill;et al."Pablo Morales".Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.Sports Reference LLC.Archived fromthe originalon 2020-04-17.
- Pablo Morales (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fameat theWayback Machine(archived 2017-02-24)
- 1964 births
- Living people
- American people of Mexican descent
- American male butterfly swimmers
- American male freestyle swimmers
- American male medley swimmers
- American swimming coaches
- College swimming coaches in the United States
- Cornell Law School alumni
- World record setters in swimming
- Nebraska Cornhuskers swimming coaches
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- Swimmers from Chicago
- Stanford Cardinal men's swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers from San Jose, California
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- Bellarmine College Preparatory alumni
- 20th-century American people
- 21st-century American people