Mike Barrowman

Mike Barrowman

Personal information
Full name	Michael Ray Barrowman
Nickname(s)	"Mike"
Nationality	United States
Born	December 4, 1968 (1968-12-04) (age 42) Asunción, Paraguay
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	Breaststroke
Club	Curl-Burke Swim Club
College team	University of Michigan
Medal record Men's swimming Competitor for the  United States Olympic Games Gold 1992 Barcelona 200 m breaststroke World Championships (LC) Gold 1991 Perth 200 m breaststroke Pan American Games Silver 1987 Indianapolis 200 m breaststroke Pan Pacific Championships Gold 1989 Tokyo 200 m breaststroke Gold 1991 Edmonton 100 m breaststroke Gold 1991 Edmonton 200 m breaststroke Gold 1991 Edmonton 4x100 m medley

Michael ("Mike") Ray Barrowman (born December 4, 1968) is an American former swimmer, one of the pioneers of the "Wave-Style" Breaststroke technique. Prior to attending University of Michigan, he trained with Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club and Curl-Burke Swim Club in Maryland.^[1]

He placed 4th in the 1988 Summer Olympics in the 200m Breaststroke. He set a world record in the same event the following year at the USA Swimming Long Course National Championships with a time of 2:12.90.^[1] The following year at the 1990 Goodwill Games he recorded a time of 2:11.53 and beat two other swimmers who also bested the previous world mark.^[2] in 1991, he was named Champion of the World in the World Championships in Perth Australia, winning the 200 breaststroke in world record time. In 1992 he returned to the Olympics in Barcelona and won the gold medal in the same event in world record time. He later temporarily retired from swimming and took up competitive flatwater kayaking, competing at the U.S. Olympic Festival in 1995. He is now a banker, and part-time masters swim coach in the Cayman Islands, but had previously owned a film studio which created an award winning underwater television program for children, "Under the Waves". Barrowman was known for his high consumption of hamburgers and French fries during his taper period just prior to a major meet, while he would maintain a strict diet during training season.

Barrowman swam for four years for the University of Michigan. Between 1989 and 1991, he won three consecutive NCAA titles in the 200 yard breaststroke. His NCAA record of 1:53.77 from 1990, would stand strong for eleven seasons, and was the oldest men's NCAA record in 2001, when it was broken by Brendan Hansen. He broke the world record in the 200 meter breaststroke six times, and held the world's record for over 13 years, both achievements are world records in themselves.

He was named World Swimmer of the Year in 1989 and 1990 by Swimming World magazine, and inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1997.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1068679/1/index.htm
2. ^ Past Goodwill Games – 1990 and Seattle. Goodwill Games. Retrieved on 2010-06-23.

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Records
Preceded by Victor Davis	Men's 200m breaststroke world record holder (long course) August 4, 1989 – October 2, 2002 (co-held record with Nick Gillingham on Aug.19,1989)	Succeeded by Kosuke Kitajima
Awards
Preceded by Matt Biondi	World Swimmer of the Year 1989–1990	Succeeded by Tamás Darnyi

Persondata
Name	Barrowman, Mike
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Date of birth	December 4, 1968
Place of birth	Costa Mesa, California
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