Anthony Ervin

Anthony Ervin is an American competitive swimmer who has won four Olympic medals and two World Championship golds. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won gold in the men's 50 metre freestyle and silver as part of the American 4x100 metre freestyle relay. He was the second swimmer of African descent, after Anthony Nesty of Suriname, to win an individual Olympic swimming gold, and the first American of African descent to do so. He stopped competing in 2003 and auctioned his 2000 gold medal to aid survivors of the 2004 tsunami, then trained again from 2011. He placed fifth in the 50 metre freestyle at the 2012 Olympics and in 2016, aged 35, won the event again, becoming the oldest individual Olympic swimming champion. He was born on 26 May 1981.