- Mike West (swimmer)
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Medal record Men’s swimming Competitor for 
CanadaOlympic Games Silver 1984 Los Angeles 4x100 m medley Bronze 1984 Los Angeles 100 m backstroke Pan Pacific Games Silver 1985 Tokyo 100 m backstroke Silver 1985 Tokyo 200 m backstroke Pan American Games Bronze 1983 Caracas 100 m backstroke Bronze 1983 Caracas 200 m backstroke Commonwealth Games Gold 1982 Brisbane 100 m backstroke Bronze 1982 Brisbane 200 m backstroke Summer Universiade Gold 1983 Edmonton 100 m backstroke Mike West (born August 31, 1964 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a former backstroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he won the silver medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay, and the bronze medal in the 100m Backstroke[1].
References
- ^ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/we/mike-west-1.html at Sports Reference
Commonwealth Champions in Men's 100 m Backstroke 1930 – 1934: 100 Yards Backstroke • 1938 – 1966: 110 Yards Backstroke • 1970 – 2010: 100 Metres Backstroke1930: Bill Trippett (ENG) • 1934: Willie Francis (SCO) • 1938: Percy Oliver (AUS) • 1950: Jacobus Wiid (RSA) • 1954: John Brockway (WAL) • 1958: John Monckton (AUS) • 1962: Graham Sykes (ENG) • 1966: Peter Reynolds (AUS) • 1970: Bill Kennedy (CAN) • 1974: Mark Tonelli (AUS) • 1978: Glenn Patching (AUS) • 1982: Mike West (CAN) • 1986 – 1990: Mark Tewksbury (CAN) • 1994: Martin Harris (ENG) • 1998: Mark Versfeld (CAN) • 2002: Matt Welsh (AUS) • 2006: Liam Tancock (ENG) • 2010: Liam Tancock (ENG)
Summer Universiade Champions in Men's 100 m Backstroke 1959: Gilberto Elsa (ITA) • 1961: Shunsuke Fukushima (JPN) • 1967: Charles Hickcox (USA) • 1970: Mitch Ivey (USA) • 1973: David Johnson (USA) • 1977: Romulo Arantes (BRA) • 1979: Mark Kerry (AUS) • 1981: Sergey Zabolotnov (URS) • 1983: Mike West (CAN) • 1985: Igor Polyansky (URS) • 1987: Daichi Suzuki (JPN) • 1991: Deke Botsford (CAN) • 1993: Rodolfo Falcón (CUB) • 1995: Kurt Jachimowski (USA) • 1997: Neisser Bent (CUB) • 1999: Simon Thirsk (RSA) • 2001: Peter Marshall (USA) • 2003: Ouyang Kunpeng (CHN) • 2005: Masafumi Yamaguchi (JPN) • 2007: Helge Meeuw (GER) • 2009: Ryosuke Irie (JPN) • 2011: Gareth Kean (NZL)
Categories:- 1964 births
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers of Canada
- Olympic silver medalists for Canada
- Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
- Male backstroke swimmers
- Canadian swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Ontario
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Canadian swimming biography stubs
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