Jon Olsen

Jon Olsen is an American former competition swimmer, a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record holder. Born in 1969, he was a successful relay swimmer for the United States national team in the late 1980s and 1990s and swam for the University of Alabama. He represented the United States at two consecutive Olympic Games and won five Olympic medals, four of them gold. At Barcelona in 1992 he won gold in the 4x100 metre freestyle relay with Joe Hudepohl, Matt Biondi and Tom Jager and swam the freestyle anchor leg of the winning medley relay, and he won relay gold again at Atlanta in 1996. In major international competition he won twenty-seven medals, twenty gold, five silver and two bronze.