Don Schollander

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Olympic medal record
Men’s Swimming Image:DonSchollander.jpg
Gold	1964 Tokyo	100m Freestyle
Gold	1964 Tokyo	400m Freestyle
Gold	1964 Tokyo	4x100m Freestyle Relay
Gold	1964 Tokyo	4x200m Freestyle Relay
Gold	1968 Mexico City	4x200m Freestyle Relay
Silver	1968 Mexico City	200m Freestyle

Donald ("Don") Arthur Schollander (born April 30, 1946) is an American former swimmer.

He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon. He started age-group swimming very young and was already a super-star type at age 11. As a teenager in 1962 he moved to Santa Clara, California to train under swim coach George Haines. Two years later at 18 years old, he won two freestlye events in the National AAU indoor meet, setting American records both times, then became a triple winner with two world records in the outdoor meet. He made the U.S. Olympic team in two individual events and two relays. Months later he won four gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was the first American to accomplish this feat since track star Jesse Owens in 1936. His success helped earn him the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States, as well as being named as ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year.

He attended college at Yale University and was a member of the both Skull and Bones secret society and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity along with president George W. Bush. While in college, he was captain of Yale's team and won three gold medals at the 1968 NCAA championships. The same year he won one gold and one silver medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics.

In 1983 he was one of the first group of inductees into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. He is also a member of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame

Schollander currently resides in Oregon where he runs a real estate development company. His Gold Medals are on display to the public at a Bank of America branch location on Fourth Street in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

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• Wheaties Sports Federation video featuring Don Schollander

Preceded by R. Malcolm Graham Robert A. Griese Floyd Little James R. Lynch Alan C. Page Ricardo M. Urbina

Silver Anniversary Awards (NCAA) Class of 1993 Dick Anderson Bob Johnson Donna A. Lopiano Donald A. Schollander Stan Smith Wyomia Tyus

Succeeded by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Lee Evans Calvin Hill William C. Hurd Leroy Keyes Jim Ryun

Olympic champions in men's 100 m freestyle

1896: Alfréd Hajós | 1906: Charles Daniels | 1908: Charles Daniels | 1912: Duke Paoa Kahanamoku | 1920: Duke Paoa Kahanamoku | 1924: Johnny Weissmuller | 1928: Johnny Weissmuller | 1932: Yasuji Miyazaki | 1936: Ferenc Csík | 1948: Walter Ris | 1952: Clarke Scholes | 1956: Jon Henricks | 1960: John Devitt | 1964: Don Schollander | 1968: Michael Wenden | 1972: Mark Spitz | 1976: Jim Montgomery | 1980: Jörg Woithe | 1984: Rowdy Gaines | 1988: Matt Biondi | 1992: Alexander Popov | 1996: Alexander Popov | 2000: Pieter van den Hoogenband | 2004: Pieter van den Hoogenband

Olympic champions in men's 400 m freestyle

1906: Otto Scheff | 1908: Henry Taylor | 1912: George Hodgson | 1920: Norman Ross | 1924: Johnny Weissmuller | 1928: Alberto Zorrilla | 1932: Buster Crabbe | 1936: Jack Medica | 1948: William Smith | 1952: Jean Boiteux | 1956: Murray Rose | 1960: Murray Rose | 1964: Don Schollander | 1968: Mike Burton | 1972: Brad Cooper | 1976: Brian Goodell | 1980: Vladimir Salnikov | 1984: George DiCarlo | 1988: Uwe Daßler | 1992: Yevgeny Sadovyi | 1996: Danyon Loader | 2000: Ian Thorpe | 2004: Ian Thorpe