American swimmer (born 1971)
William Douglas "Tripp " Schwenk III (born June 17, 1971) is an American former competition swimmer , Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Schwenk swam for the University of Tennessee where he was coached by Head Coach John Trembley .[ 1] While swimming for Tennessee, he captured the NCAA 200 backstroke title in 1992 and won Southeastern Conference titles three times.[ 2]
Schwenk represented the United States at two consecutive Olympic Games. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, he competed in the men's 200-meter backstroke and finished fifth in the event final in a time of 1:59.73.[ 3]
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, he received a gold medal for swimming for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×100-meter medley . Individually, Schwenk also received the silver medal for recording a 1:58.99 second-place finish in the men's 200-meter backstroke . He also competed in the men's 100-meter backstroke , finishing in fifth place in the final with a time of 55.30 seconds.[ 3]
In international competition, Schwenk was a competitor at both the 1991 and 1993 Universiade, where he took three gold medals and five medals in all. He won a gold medal in the 200 backstroke at the Pan Pacific Championships in 1995.[ 2]
Schwenk later served as a K-9 Unit police officer in Sarasota, Florida, where he lived with his wife, one son and a daughter.[ 2]
^ Gribble, Andrew, "Trembley", The Knoxville News Sentinel , Knoxville, Tennessee, 15 January 2012, p. 30 ^ a b c "Trip Schwenk, Biography" . Olympedia . Retrieved November 19, 2021 . ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill ; et al. "Tripp Schwenk" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC . Archived from the original on December 4, 2016.
Qualification Men's Team Women's Team Coaches
Qualification Men's Team Women's Team Coaches
1960 : Frank McKinney , Paul Hait , Lance Larson , Jeff Farrell (USA ) 1964 : Thompson Mann , Bill Craig , Fred Schmidt , Steve Clark (USA ) 1968 : Charlie Hickcox , Don McKenzie , Doug Russell , Ken Walsh (USA ) 1972 : Mike Stamm , Tom Bruce , Mark Spitz , Jerry Heidenreich (USA ) 1976 : John Naber , John Hencken , Matt Vogel , Jim Montgomery (USA ) 1980 : Mark Kerry , Peter Evans , Mark Tonelli , Neil Brooks (AUS ) 1984 : Rick Carey , Steve Lundquist , Pablo Morales , Rowdy Gaines (USA ) 1988 : David Berkoff , Richard Schroeder , Matt Biondi , Chris Jacobs (USA ) 1992 : Jeff Rouse , Nelson Diebel , Pablo Morales , Jon Olsen , David Berkoff , Hans Dersch , Melvin Stewart , Matt Biondi (USA ) 1996 : Jeff Rouse , Jeremy Linn , Mark Henderson , Gary Hall Jr. , Josh Davis , Kurt Grote , John Hargis , Tripp Schwenk (USA ) 2000 : Lenny Krayzelburg , Ed Moses , Ian Crocker , Gary Hall Jr. , Neil Walker , Tommy Hannan , Jason Lezak (USA ) 2004 : Aaron Peirsol , Brendan Hansen , Ian Crocker , Jason Lezak , Lenny Krayzelburg , Mark Gangloff , Michael Phelps , Neil Walker (USA ) 2008 : Aaron Peirsol , Brendan Hansen , Michael Phelps , Jason Lezak , Matt Grevers , Mark Gangloff , Ian Crocker , Garrett Weber-Gale (USA ) 2012 : Matt Grevers , Brendan Hansen , Michael Phelps , Nathan Adrian , Nick Thoman , Eric Shanteau , Tyler McGill , Cullen Jones (USA ) 2016 : Ryan Murphy , Cody Miller , Michael Phelps , Nathan Adrian , David Plummer , Kevin Cordes , Tom Shields , Caeleb Dressel (USA ) 2020 : Ryan Murphy , Michael Andrew , Caeleb Dressel , Zach Apple , Hunter Armstrong , Andrew Wilson , Tom Shields , Blake Pieroni (USA ) 2024 : Xu Jiayu , Qin Haiyang , Sun Jiajun , Pan Zhanle , Wang Changhao (CHN )
1993 : United States (Schwenk , Wunderlich , Henderson , Olsen ) 1995 : New Zealand (Winter , Kent , Callaghan , Bray ) 1997 : Australia (Radley , Rogers , Huegill , Klim ) 1999 : Australia (Welsh , Rogers , Klim , Fydler ) 2000 : United States (Krayzelburg , Marrs , Walker , Tucker ) 2002 : United States (Peirsol , Denniston , Marshall , Lezak ) 2004 : United States (Peirsol , Hansen , Crocker , Lezak ) 2006 : Australia (Welsh , Rickard , Pine , Callus ) 2008 : Russia (Donets , Geybel , Korotyshkin , Sukhorukov ) 2010 : United States (Thoman , Alexandrov , Lochte , Weber-Gale ) 2012 : United States (Grevers , Cordes , Shields , Lochte ) 2014 : Brazil (Guido , Silva , Macedo , Cielo ) 2016 : Russia (Shabasov , Prigoda , Kharlanov , Morozov ) 2018 : United States (Murphy , Wilson , Dressel , Held ) 2021 : Italy (Mora , Martinenghi , Rivolta , Miressi ) 2022 : Australia (Cooper , Yong , Temple , Chalmers ) United States (Murphy , Fink , Julian , Smith )
1959: Italy : Unknown 1961: Japan : (Fukushima , Shikiishi ,Yoshimuta , Fujimoto ) 1963: Hungary : Unknown 1965: United States : (Mann , Tretheway , Riker , Roth ) 1967: United States : (Hickcox , Merten , Russell , Walsh ) 1970: United States : (Ivey , Shilling , Ferris , Heckl ) 1973: United States : (Johnson , Chatfield , Poucher , Knox ) 1977: United States : (Ballard , Michaelis , Curington , Ebuna ) 1979: United States : (Manganiello , Lundberg , Bottom , Peppas ) 1981: Soviet Union : Unknown 1983: Soviet Union : Unknown 1985: United States : (Rhodenbaugh , Moffet , O'Neil , McCadam ) 1987: United States : (Berkoff , Torres , Mortenson , Hansen ) 1991: United States : (Hansen , Kutler , Pajer , Schwenk ) 1993: United States : (Schwenk , Crawford , Pepper , Fox ) 1995: United States : (Jachimowski , Engstrom-Heg , Lancaster , Davis ) 1997: United States : (Brewer , Kling , Martyak , Jones ) 1999: United States : (Ulrickson , McDonnell , Pierce , Busse ) 2001: United States : (Marshall , Denniston , Haidinyak , VonSchoff ) 2003: Ukraine : (Nikolaychuk , Lisohor , Serdinov , Yegoshin ) 2005: Ukraine : (Bugayov , Lisohor , Advena , Syzonenko ) 2007: Russia : (Smirnov , Falko , Korotyshkin , Grechin ) 2009: Japan : (R. Irie , Sakimoto , S. Irie , Harada ) 2011: Japan : (Irie , Tateishi , Kishida , Shioura ) 2013: Russia : (Morozov , Strelnikov , Koptelov , Grechin ) 2015: Russia : (Shabasov , Kostin , Koptelov , Polischuk ) 2017: United States : (Ress , Wilson , Lynch , Held ) 2019: United States : (Ress , Finnerty , Shebat , Apple ) 2021: China : (Wang , Qin , Chen , Lin )