Jason Lezak

Jason Lezak is an American former competitive swimmer and swimming executive who competed for the University of California, Santa Barbara and specialized in the 50 and 100 metre freestyle. Born in Irvine, California in 1975, he represented the United States at four Olympic Games, in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012, and won eight Olympic medals, four of them gold. He is best known for anchoring the American 4x100 metre freestyle relay at the 2008 Beijing Games with a split of 46.06 seconds, then the fastest 100 metre freestyle split recorded. Several sports historians and journalists rank that race among the most memorable efforts by an American relay team. He later became general manager of the Cali Condors in the International Swimming League.