Mike Troy
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Michael Francis Troy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Mike" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 3, 1940 Indianapolis, Indiana |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Indianapolis Athletic Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Indiana University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Medal record
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michael Francis Troy (born October 3, 1940) is an American former competition swimmer, a two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events.
The peak of Troy's swimming career occurred between 1959 and 1960 while he was coached by Doc Counsilman of the Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving team at Indiana University. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, he won his first gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Individually, he won a second gold with his first-place finish in the men's 200-meter butterfly—his signature event.
Troy broke the world record in the 200-meter butterfly six consecutive times before it was taken over by fellow American swimmer Carl Robie in 1961.
After college, Troy became a U.S. naval officer and completed Basic Underwater Demolition/SEALs (BUD/S) training. He was later nominated for the Silver Star award for his combat service during the Vietnam War.[1]
Currently, Troy is co-owner of the Gold Medal Swim School in Chandler, Arizona, with two time Olympic coach Mike Walker.[2] Troy was married August 17, 2012 to Suzanne Benedict.
See also
- List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 200 metres butterfly
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
- World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.
<references />, or <references group="..." />External links
- Mike Troy – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
- Mike Troy (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame
- "Glory Of Old IU / 100 years of Indiana Athletics" by Bob Hammel and Kit Klingelhoffer
| Records | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Men's 200-meter butterfly world record-holder (long course) July 11, 1959 – August 19, 1961 |
Succeeded by Carl Robie |
Template:Footer USA Swimming 1960 Summer Olympics
|
<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/>
|
Mike Troy (
- ↑ "Michael (Mike) Francis Troy," Troyhistory.com. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
- ↑ Gold Medal Swim School. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- Pages with reference errors
- Pages using Infobox sportsperson with module2 parameter
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- Pages using infobox swimmer with national team parameter
- 1940 births
- Living people
- American male butterfly swimmers
- American male freestyle swimmers
- American swimming coaches
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Indiana Hoosiers swimmers
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Sportspeople from Indianapolis, Indiana
- Swimmers at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- United States Navy SEALs personnel
- International Swimming Hall of Fame inductees
