- Dan Veatch
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Dan Veatch Personal information Full name Daniel "Dan" Hayward Veatch Nationality 
United StatesBorn April 18, 1965 Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Sport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) back College team Princeton Medal recordWorld Championships (LC) Gold 1986 Madrid 4x100 m medley Pan Pacific Games Gold 1987 Brisbane 200 m back Gold 1987 Brisbane 4x100 m medley Gold 1989 Tokyo 200 m back Pan American Games Silver 1991 Havana 200 m back Daniel ("Dan") Hayward Veatch (born April 18, 1965) swam for the United States team at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, finishing seventh in the 200-meter backstroke, his specialist event. He won the 200 m backstroke at the Pan Pacific Games in Brisbane in 1987 and again in Tokyo in 1989. He pulled his hamstring just before the 200 m US Trials for the 1992 Summer Olympics and so missed those Games.
He is openly gay and currently lives in San Francisco.
References
1988 USA Olympic Swimming Team Men's Team Mike Barrowman • David Berkoff • Steve Bigelow • Matt Biondi • Matt Cetlinski • Troy Dalbey • Mark Dean • Doug Gjertsen • Chris Jacobs • Tom Jager • Shaun Jordan • Dan Jorgensen • Lars Jorgensen • Jeff Kostoff • Brett Lang • Jay Mortenson • Craig Oppel • Rich Schroeder • Kirk Stackle • Bill Stapleton • Melvin Stewart • Dan Veatch • Daniel Watters • Dave Wharton
Women's Team Beth Barr • Tami Bruce • Janet Evans • Leigh Ann Fetter • Erika Hansen • Andrea Hayes • Whitney Hedgepeth • Janel Jorgensen • Mitzi Kremer • Susan Lipscomb • Tracey McFarlane • Mary T. Meagher • Betsy Mitchell • Trina Radke • Susan Rapp • Jill Sterkel • Dara Torres • Laura Walker • Mary Wayte • Paige Zemina
Coaches Steve Bultman • Dick Hannula (manager) • Mitch Ivey • Frank Keefe • Skip Kenney • Richard Quick • Eddie Reese • Randy Reese • Mark Schubert
World Long Course Champions in Men's 4×100 m Medley Relay 1973: United States (Stamm, Hencken, Bottom, Montgomery) • 1975: United States (Murphy, Colella, Jagenburg, Coan) • 1978: United States (Jackson, Nevid, Bottom, McCagg) • 1982: United States (Carey, Lundquist, Gribble, Gaines) • 1986: United States (Veatch, Lundberg, Morales, Biondi) • 1991: United States (Rouse, Wunderlich, Henderson, Biondi) • 1994: United States (Rouse, Wunderlich, Henderson, Hall, Jr.) • 1998: Australia (Welsh, Rogers, Klim, Fydler) • 2001: Australia (Welsh, Harrison, Huegill, Thorpe) • 2003: United States (Peirsol, Hansen, Crocker, Lezak) • 2005: United States (Peirsol, Hansen, Crocker, Lezak) • 2007: Australia (Welsh, Rickard, Lauterstein, Sullivan) • 2009: United States (Peirsol, Shanteau, Phelps, Walters) • 2011: United States (Thoman, Gangloff, Phelps, Adrian)
Pan Pacific Champions in Men's 200 m Backstroke 1985: Rick Carey (USA) • 1987: Dan Veatch (USA) • 1989: Dan Veatch (USA) • 1991: Jeff Rouse (USA) • 1993: Royce Sharp (USA) • 1995: Tripp Schwenk (USA) • 1997: Lenny Krayzelburg (USA) • 1999: Lenny Krayzelburg (USA) • 2002: Aaron Peirsol (USA) • 2006: Aaron Peirsol (USA) • 2010: Ryan Lochte (USA)
Pan Pacific Champions in Men's 4×100 m Medley Relay 1985: USA (Carey, Moffet, Morales, Biondi) • 1987: USA (Veatch, Schroeder, Morales, Biondi) • 1989: USA (Rouse, Korhammer, Morales, Biondi) • 1991: USA (Rouse, Barrowman, Henderson, Biondi) • 1993: USA (Rouse, Van Neerden, Henderson, Olsen) • 1995: USA (Rouse, Wunderlich, Henderson, Hall) • 1997: USA (Krayzelburg, Grote, Dusing, Walker) • 1999: USA (Krayzelburg, Grote, Wales, Walker) • 2002: USA (Peirsol, Hansen, Phelps, Lezak) • 2006: USA (Peirsol, Hansen, Crocker, Lezak) • 2010: USA (Peirsol, Gangloff, Phelps, Adrian)
Categories:- 1965 births
- American swimmers
- Gay sportspeople
- LGBT people from the United States
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- American swimming biography stubs
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