Budd Goodwin

Leo Joseph Goodwin, called Budd or Bud, was an American swimmer, diver and water polo player who competed for the New York Athletic Club. Born in New York City on 13 November 1883, he won more than 50 national and New York Metropolitan championships and nearly lost his arm to blood poisoning at age 22 before a surgeon from his club rebuilt the forearm. At the 1904 St. Louis Olympics he won gold in the 4x50 yard freestyle relay and gold in water polo with his club team, and took bronze in the plunge for distance; at the 1908 London Olympics he added a bronze in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay. He later received the Congressional Gold Medal for rescuing people from drowning at Newport News, Virginia, was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1971, and died in New York on 25 May 1957.