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  Don Schollander - MSN Encarta
Don Schollander, born in 1946, American swimmer, who at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo became the first person to win four gold medals in swimming in a single Olympiad.
Schollander developed into a leading swimmer as a teenager and won the 1962 United States outdoor national title in the 200-meter freestyle event while he was still in high school.
Schollander retired from competitive swimming after the 1968 games and was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983, as a member of the first class of inductees.
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 Don Schollander's motivation
Don Schollander has a very practical nature; he wants to see concrete, tangible results for his efforts, and he is not one to concoct wild dreams that are unlikely to come into fruition.
Don Schollander also has an innate sense of harmony with nature, allowing things to grow and unfold in their own time and the patience to nurture something into being - be it a garden, a child, or a creative project.
Don Schollander both fears, and is intensely fascinated with, death and the hidden, secret, dark side of life.
famous-relationships.topsynergy.com /Don_Schollander/Motivation.asp   (734 words)

  
 Relationships with Don Schollander
Don Schollander inspires others to take positive action in their lives through his own enthusiasm and eagerness to meet life's challenges, and he is attracted to people who are adventurous, courageous and independent.
Don Schollander may have traveled extensively in his early years, or something in his background may have enabled him to understand and identify with many different types of people or cultures.
Don Schollander tends to be on the defensive and fear rejection and lack of acceptance.
famous-relationships.topsynergy.com /Don_Schollander   (846 words)

  
 HickokSports.com - Biography - Don Schollander
Schollander was the first swimmer to win four gold medals at one Olympics, but his career almost ended before it really began.
Schollander was the outdoor 100-meter champion in 1964, 1966, and 1967, and he won the 400-meter freestyle in 1966.
Schollander won the 1964 Sullivan Award as the nation's outstanding athlete and was named male athlete of the year by the Associated Press.
www.hickoksports.com /biograph/schollanderdon.shtml   (308 words)

  
 ISHOF - Don Schollander (USA) - 1965 Honor Swimmer
Justification for Schollander's overwhelming A.P. vote and for his selection to the first group honored in the new Swimming Hall of Fame is his record of 4 gold medals, 4 Olympic and 3 world records in his four Olympic freestyle swimming events.
Don was the first man in the world to break 2 minutes for the 200 meter freestyle, on July 7, 1963; but his most amazing performance was his 1:41.7 for 200 yards last April.
Don owned the 400 meter race, perhaps his best distance, and swam on two of the U.S.A.'s three gold medal world record breaking relays, something he might not have been able to do had he primed for the 1500.
www.ishof.org /Honorees/65/65dschollander.html   (625 words)

  
 Don Schollander Relationships plus Don Schollander and You
Don Schollander inspires others to take positive action in their lives through his own enthusiasm and eagerness to meet life's challenges, and he is attracted to people who are adventurous, courageous and independent.
Don Schollander has artistic interests and may be attracted to people who are artists, are connected with artistic endeavors or interested in art.
Don Schollander tends to be on the defensive and fear rejection and lack of acceptance.
www.topsynergy.com /famous/Don_Schollander.asp   (821 words)

  
 United States Olympic Committee - U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame Class of 1983
Schollander is one of many in a line of great U.S. swimmers.
In 1964, at the tender age of 18, he became the first swimmer to win four gold medals in a single Olympic Games, including a world record performance in the 400-meter freestyle and an Olympic record performance in the 100-meter freestyle.
Schollander added a gold and a bronze to his Olympic medal total in Mexico City in 1968.
www.olympic-usa.org /62_43.htm   (1871 words)

  
 Oregon Blue Book: Notable Oregonians: Don Schollander - Athlete (Swimmer)
Don Schollander was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 30, 1946 and raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
In honor of his Olympic performance, Schollander won the 1964 James E. Sullivan Memorial Award, given annually by the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States to the outstanding amateur athlete in the country.
Schollander was noted for his speed, perfection of stroke, and effortless crawl.
www.bluebook.state.or.us /notable/notschollander.htm   (378 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - Don Schollander - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Donald ("Don") Arthur Schollander (born April 30, 1946) is an American former swimmer.
Don learned to swim under Newt Perry's guidance when he was 8 years old.
Schollander currently resides in Oregon where he runs a real estate development company.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Don_Schollander   (630 words)

  
 Don Schollander - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Donald Arthur ("Don") Schollander (born April 30, 1946) is an American former swimmer.
Schollander currently resides in Oregon where he runs a real estate development company.
Don Schollander, 1946 births, Bonesmen, Living people, Olympic swimmers of the United States, People from North Carolina, People from Oregon, Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics, Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics, James E. Sullivan Award recipients, Multiple Olympic gold medalists and Yale College alumni.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Don_Schollander   (559 words)

  
 Ivy League Sports
Created: 5/9/2007 6:23:21 AM When Don Schollander arrived on Yale's campus as a freshman in January 1965, he was already swimming royalty with a resume that included both world records and a bevy of Olympic gold medals.
Schollander was clearly a unique talent as a youth, but also had a deep desire for a balanced life.
Note, there are Ivy postcards of Don Schollander and all of the other athletes who have been profiled available by clicking here.
www.ivyleaguesports.com /article.asp?intID=6002   (330 words)

  
 History and Heroes from every Olympic Games since 1896; Sunday Times Great British Olympians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Don Schollander was the ultimate American blue-eyed boy and one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in history, one who set the pace over 200 and 400m freestyle between 1963 and 1967,establishing nine world records over 200m and three over 400m.
Schollander, raised in Oregon and coached by George Haines at Santa Clara Swim Club in California, became the first man to swim 200m freestyle in less than 2 minutes when he established a world record of 1min 58.8sec in Los Angeles in July 1963.
Schollander might have won five gold medals, had the US entered him in the freestyle leg of the medley relay.
www.times-olympics.co.uk /historyheroes/dscol.html   (612 words)

  
 Oregon Blue Book: Notable Oregonians: Don Schollander - Athlete (Swimmer)
Don Schollander was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 30, 1946 and raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
In honor of his Olympic performance, Schollander won the 1964 James E. Sullivan Memorial Award, given annually by the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States to the outstanding amateur athlete in the country.
Schollander was noted for his speed, perfection of stroke, and effortless crawl.
bluebook.state.or.us /notable/notschollander.htm   (378 words)

  
 Medal fatigue
Schollander hasn’t swum a competitive race in 36 years, since he retired from the sport at 22 after winning a gold medal in the 800 freestyle relay and a silver in the 200 freestyle at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.
Schollander enjoys reliving the remarkable story of the kid from Lake Oswego who rose from obscurity to win the 100 freestyle, 400 freestyle and the 400 and 800 freestyle relays at Tokyo in 1964.
Schollander teamed with Spitz and two others to earn gold in the 800 free relay, finished second in the 200 free Ñ it was now an Olympic event Ñ and called it a career.
www.portlandtribune.com /sports/story.php?story_id=25066   (2143 words)

  
 Ivy@50
When Don Schollander arrived on Yale's campus as a freshman in January 1965, he was already swimming royalty with a resume that included both world records and a bevy of Olympic gold medals.
Schollander also told the Times that "it would have been insane for me to retire from swimming at the age of 18" because swimming had given him so many rewards.
Schollander was one of eight Yale swimmers to claim Olympic gold in the 20 years between 1948 and 1968 (along with James McLane, Allen Stack, Wayne Moore, Jeffrey Farrell, Michael Austin, Stephen Clark and John Nelson).
www.ivy50.com /story.aspx?sid=5/9/2007   (1346 words)

  
 Tokyo 1964
Peter Snell, New Zealand, Don Schollander, the United States, Abebe Bikela, Ethiopia, Bob Hayes, the United States and Dawn Fraser, Australia.
The United States totally dominated the swimming, and the king of swimming was, without a doubt, Don Schollander.
The 18-year-old won four gold medals, and it would have been five if the head of the team had not, for some reason, taken him off the medley team.
www.sok.se /inenglish/tokyo1964.4.18ea16851076df63622800011069.html   (1579 words)

  
 Stars and Stripes: From the S&S archives: Schollander arrives in Germany to receive ISK honors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Don is the first foreign winner of the award — inaugurated in 1947 — to come to Germany and accept it.
Schollander rocketed to world fame last October when he stroked to victory in the 100 and 400-meter freestyles and swam legs on victorious U.S. 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle relays.
Schollander's poised, yet modest and polite manner, and his well-scrubbed, "picture-of-health" looks — not to mention his well-publicized athletic achievements — will go a long way in enhancing the image of the AAU as well as the United States.
www.stripes.com /article.asp?article=33011§ion=104&archive=true   (1232 words)

  
 United States Olympic Committee - U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame Class of 1983
Schollander is one of many in a line of great U.S. swimmers.
In 1964, at the tender age of 18, he became the first swimmer to win four gold medals in a single Olympic Games, including a world record performance in the 400-meter freestyle and an Olympic record performance in the 100-meter freestyle.
Schollander added a gold and a bronze to his Olympic medal total in Mexico City in 1968.
www.usoc.org /62_43.htm   (1871 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Yale Swimming Team Has Superstars, Depth, Tradition, and Don Schollander
America's premier amateur athlete and the greatest dynasty in collegiate swimming come to the indoor Athletic Building Saturday in the form of freshman Don Schollander, winner of four gold medals at the Olympic Games, and the Yale swimming juggernaut, winner of 38 straight dual swimming meets.
Yale's freshman team is probably the strongest in the country, and has two Olympians in Schollander and freestyler-butterflyer Bill Mettler.
Schollander can do the 200 in well under 1:45.0, while Mettler holds the freshman butterfly record of 2:01.7.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=244369   (413 words)

  
 Ivy League Sports - Ivies in Athens 2004
If Steinkraus is noted for going to the most Olympics, Don Schollander '68 has to be mentioned for winning the most medals.
Schollander, a swimmer, won four gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Games (100-meter, 400-meter freestyle, 4x100-meter freestyle relay, 4x200-meter freestyle relay) and three gold medals and silver at the 1968 Mexico City games (200-meter freestyle, 4x100-meter freestyle relay, 4x200-meter freestyle relay, and 4x100-meter medley relay).
Schollander was the first swimmer in Olympic history to win four gold medals in the same Games.
www.iviesinathens.com /olympic/school.aspx?ID=8   (457 words)

  
 Page Title   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Don was the first man to break 2:00 in the 200-meter freestyle… in the 1960s.
Most of the swimmers who now swim faster than Don Schollander swam in the 1960s are not considered the most talented swimmers around, and most are not as well trained or as well coached as Don was.
Until Don Schollander broke the barrier, no one thought a human could swim that fast.
www.newwaveswimteam.org /Communications/Ripples/Issues   (730 words)

  
 George Haines
His swimmers won a total of 44 Gold, 14 Silver and 10 Bronze Olympic medals.
Fourteen of his swimmers - record breakers Mark Spitz, Donna de Varona, Chris Von Saltza and Don Schollander among them - join him as a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
In 2001, the International Swimming Hall of Fame named him Coach of the Century.
www.bashof.org /GHaines.htm   (100 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
Judo and volleyball were introduced to the Olympic programme.
American swimmer Don Schollander won four gold medals.
Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia became the first repeat winner of the marathon - less than six weeks after having his appendix removed.
www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1964   (339 words)

  
 Olympic flashback Swimming World and Junior Swimmer - Find Articles
As his Yale classmates enjoyed the first months of their freshman year, Schollander dominated the pool in an unprecedented way, taking home gold medals in the 100 free, the 400 free (in world record time of 4:12.7), and as part of the U.S. 4 x 100 free and 4x200 free relays.
Schollander's feat is even more impressive considering that his best individual event, the 200 free, wasn't yet on the Olympic program!
In other events on the men's side, Australia's Michael Wenden won the glamour event, the 100 free, and touched out Don Schollander in the 200 free to win his second gold medal of the meet.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3883/is_200007/ai_n8914187   (1027 words)

  
 Skull & Bones showdown
Bonesmen also hold powerful positions in the private sector, such as Henry Luce, founder of Time magazine, and Olympic swimming gold medalist Don Schollander.
"There is a devil, a Don Quixote and a Pope who has one foot sheathed in a white monogrammed slipper resting on a stone skull," Robbins said in a "60 Minutes" piece.
Finally, the Bonesman is shoved to his knees in front of Don Quixote as the shrieking crowd falls silent.
www.infowars.net /Pages/Oct_04/281004_skullandbones.html   (517 words)

  
 Luxury country living
The 20-house project is being built by Schollander Development Co. and is situated off the corner of Stafford and Bergis roads near the Lake Oswego Municipal Golf Course.
Built by real estate development and construction company Schollander Development Co. and opened Feb. 12, the project taps into an area of the city not changed for many years.
Don Schollander, owner, previously developed property either side of the hill surrounding Rolling Hill Farm Estates and met in the middle for this project.
www.westlinntidings.com /features/story.php?story_id=117279357451700500   (747 words)

  
 Don Schollander at AllExperts
Donald Arthur ("Don") Schollander (born April 30, 1946) is an American former swimmer.
He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Schollander currently resides in Oregon where he runs a real estate development company.
en.allexperts.com /e/d/do/don_schollander.htm   (286 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
George Haines, a renowned coach who helped develop some of the greatest swimmers of recent decades, including the Olympic champions Mark Spitz and Don Schollander, died on Monday in Carmichael, California.
Besides Spitz and Schollander, he coached, among others, the Olympic gold medalists Chris von Saltza, Donna de Varona, Claudia Kolb, Steve Clark, Lynn Burke, John Hencken, Dick Roth and Pablo Morales.
Schollander, who won four Olympic gold medals in Tokyo in 1964 and one in Mexico City in 1968, said of Haines: "He suggests.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/sport/archives/2006/05/04/2003306169/print   (430 words)

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