Pablo Morales
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Full name | Pedro Pablo Morales Jr. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1964-12-05) December 5, 1964 (age 59) Chicago, Illinois | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 187 lb (85 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pedro Pablo Morales Jr. (born December 5, 1964) is an American former competitive swimmer. He set world records in the 100-meter butterfly in 1984 and 1986. He was the 100-meter butterfly gold medalist at the 1992 Olympic Games, as well as winning 4 × 100 meter medley relay gold medals at both the 1984 and 1992 Olympic Games. He also won 100-meter butterfly and 4 × 100 meter medley relay gold medals at the 1986 World Championships.
Biography
Morales attended Bellarmine College Preparatory, in San Jose, California, and trained under the supervision of Larry Rogers.
Morales won a relay gold and two silver medals swimming butterfly at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and set the world record in the 100-meter butterfly at the US Olympic Trials that year with a time of 53.38 seconds, breaking the former record of American Olympic teammate Matt Gribble, who finished second. At the trials, Morales also set relay records with teammates Rick Carey, Steve Lundquist and Rowdy Gaines. After losing the 100-meter butterfly world record to German swimmer Michael Gross in 1984, he regained it in 1986 with a swim of 52.84 seconds. This record stood until 1995.
In 1988, on the heels of a record 11th National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) individual championship at Stanford University, Morales surprisingly failed to qualify for the 1988 Olympics.
After briefly retiring from the sport to pursue a JD degree at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York, Morales returned to swimming and qualified for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, where he was the US team captain and captured gold in the 100-meter butterfly.
Coaching career
Morales is currently the head women's swimming and diving coach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
See also
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
- List of notable Cuban-Americans
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of Stanford University people
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 100 metres butterfly
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
External links
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Pablo Morales". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- Pablo Morales (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame at the Wayback Machine (archived 2017-02-24)
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Preceded by | Men's 100-meter butterfly world record-holder (long course) June 26, 1984 – July 30, 1984 | Succeeded by Michael Gross |
Preceded by Michael Gross | Men's 100-meter butterfly world record-holder (long course) June 23, 1986 – August 23, 1995 | Succeeded by |
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- Matt Biondi
- Rick Carey
- Chris Cavanaugh
- George DiCarlo
- Jeff Float (team captain)
- Geoff Gaberino
- Rowdy Gaines
- Matt Gribble
- Bruce Hayes
- Mike Heath
- Tom Jager
- Patrick Kennedy
- Jeff Kostoff
- David Larson
- Robin Leamy
- Steve Lundquist
- John Moffet
- Pablo Morales
- John Mykkanen
- Mike O'Brien
- Richard Saeger
- Rich Schroeder
- Jesse Vassallo
- Dave Wilson
- Ron Ballatore
- Ray Bussard
- Don Gambril (head coach)
- George Haines
- Charlie Hodgson
- Doug Ingram
- Frank Keefe
- Skip Kenney
- Richard Quick
- Randy Reese
- Mark Schubert