Rowdy Gaines

Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines IV, born on 17 February 1959 in Winter Haven, Florida, is an American former competitive swimmer, a three-time Olympic gold medalist and a member of both the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame. He swam for Auburn University, where he became a five-time NCAA champion, and from 1978 to 1984 he set ten world records. The American boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics kept him from competing at his peak, but at the 1984 Los Angeles Games he won gold in the 100 metre freestyle and in both the 4 by 100 metre freestyle and medley relays. He later became a television swimming analyst for NBC, known as the Voice of Swimming, covering the Olympic Games.