Vladimir Morozov

Vladimir Morozov is a retired Russian competitive swimmer, born on 16 June 1992, who moved to the United States as a 14-year-old and swam collegiately for the University of Southern California. A sprinter who also swam individual medley, he won an Olympic bronze medal in 2012 as a member of the Russian 4x100 metre freestyle relay, and he later swam at the 2016 Rio Games, where he missed the finals of the 50 and 100 metre freestyle, and at the Tokyo Games held in 2021, competing under the Russian Olympic Committee name because of a doping ban. In 2013 he became the first swimmer to go below 18 seconds for 50 yards of freestyle on an NCAA relay leg. He set records over short course distances, including a former world record in the 100 metre individual medley, and he won 176 medals, 123 of them gold, on the Swimming World Cup circuit. He holds the Russian record in the 50 metre freestyle.