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Bruce Furniss
Bruce Furniss in 1976
Personal information
Full name
Bruce MacFarlane Furniss
National team
United States
Born
(1957-05-27) May 27, 1957 (age 67) Fresno, California, U.S.
Height
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight
161 lb (73 kg)
Sport
Sport
Swimming
Strokes
Freestyle, individual medley
Club
Long Beach Swim Club[1]
College team
University of Southern California
Coach
Dick Jochums Long Beach Swim Club Peter Daland USC
Medal record
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
1976 Montreal
200 m freestyle
1976 Montreal
4×200 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
1975 Cali
4×100 m freestyle
1978 West Berlin
4×200 m freestyle
1975 Cali
200 m freestyle
1975 Cali
400 m freestyle
Bruce MacFarlane Furniss (born May 27, 1957) is a former American amateur competition swimmer, Olympic double gold medalist, and ten-time world record-holder in four events. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, he won the Men's 200-meter Freestyle and was a member of the winning U.S. team in the Men's 4×200-meter Freestyle Relay, both in world record time.[2] Furniss broke ten world and nineteen American records, and won eleven Amateur Athletic Union and six NCAA titles.
Furniss was a proficient and successful individual medley swimmer, however it was his freestyle technique for which he is most often recognized and remembered. Many coaches and swimming experts lauded his "perfect freestyle stroke" and six-beat flutter kick as his best weapon against his much taller and bigger opponents.
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bruce Furniss". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020.
^2001 Inductees For USC Athletic Hall of Fame Announced
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