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Ambrose “Rowdy” Gaines, IV is one the great American sprint freestylers of all-time.

Rowdy gaines pool winter haven fl Safe Sport Club Recognition. Gaines returned for the Olympics, although he was not as dominant as he had been five years prior, yet still came back to win gold in the freestyle. Succeeded by Matt Biondi. Virtual Club Championship.

Gaines swam at Auburn where he was a five-time NCAA Champion. In the later s and early s Gaines was the top sprinter in the world and would have been favored to win multiple gold medals at the Olympics, had the US not boycotted. In he broke the world metre freestyle record, and he also set an early world record in the 50 metre freestyle in Gaines returned for the Olympics, although he was not as dominant as he had been five years prior, yet still came back to win gold in the freestyle.

He added gold medals in the medley relay and the 4x free relay. At the World Championships, Gaines won gold medals in both freestyle relays and a silver in the free.

Rowdy gaines biography Archived from the original on May 4, Meet the Team Home. At the Olympic Games in Rio, he served as an analyst for swimming and open water. Gaines attended Winter Haven High School junior where he advanced quickly and was offered a swimming scholarship to Auburn University.

At the Worlds, he won golds in all three relays, and added two silver medals in the and freestyles.

After the Olympics Gaines stopped competing and became a swimming announcer for television. In he developed Guillain-Barré syndrome which hospitalized him for two months. He fully recovered, using swimming for therapy, and returned to the pool and actually qualified for the US Olympic Trials, although he chose not to compete.

Gaines has continued to compete into his late 50s in masters events, setting multiple records.

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He is Executive Director of Rowdy’s Kidz, a charitable program in Alabama. He was Outreach Director for the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in Birmingham, Alabama from until when he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado to become the Chief Fund-raising and Alumni Officer for USA Swimming. Gaines is a member of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, and the Florida Sports Hall of Fame.