Graham smith swimmer biography of barack obama
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In the late 1970s Graham Smith was arguably Canada’s greatest swimmer on the international scene. He joined the national team in 1973 and first made his mark at the 1976 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal in the 4x100 metre medley relay, alongside Clay Evans, Gary MacDonald, Steve Pickell, and Bruce Robertson.
Graham smith swimmer biography of barack obama
He also finished fourth in the 100 and 200 metre breaststroke events and fifth in the 400 metre individual medley. His next feat was to lower the world record in the 200 metre individual medley to 2:05.31 in August 1977, which was later bettered by Oleksandr Sydorenko of the Soviet Union in July 1978, and again by Steve Lundquist of the United States less than a month later.
Smith would better Lundquist’s mark just over three weeks later, to 2:03.56, while winning gold in the event at the 1978 World Championships, a tournament at which he also captured silver in the 100 metre breaststroke.
Before that, however, Smith had a more important stop, the 1978 Commonwealth