Daniel Kowalski

Daniel Kowalski, born on 2 July 1975, is an Australian former middle- and long-distance freestyle swimmer who competed at the Olympic Games in the 200, 400 and 1500 metre freestyle and the 4x200 metre relay. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he became the first man in 92 years to win medals in all three of those individual distances, taking silver in the 1500 metres and bronze in the 400 and 200. He also shares the 2000 Olympic gold in the 4x200 metre relay for swimming in the heats. He is often remembered as the perpetual runner-up to Kieren Perkins and Grant Hackett. He retired in 2002 and publicly came out as gay in 2010.