George Kojac

George Kojac (1910 to 1996) was an American competition swimmer who won two Olympic gold medals at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He swam in the winning United States team in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay, which set a world record of 9:36.2 with Austin Clapp, Walter Laufer and Johnny Weissmuller, and he also won the 100 metre backstroke in a world record 1:08.2. He finished fourth in the 100 metre freestyle. Born to Ukrainian immigrants, he learned to swim in New York's East River, attended DeWitt Clinton High School and graduated from Rutgers University in 1931. He missed the 1932 Olympics because of his medical studies at Columbia, set 23 world records in his career and was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968.