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Matt Biondi
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Matt Biondi

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Winning eleven Olympic swimming medals, including eight golds.

Seoul Olympics · Olympic record

Born
8 October 1965
Birthplace
Moraga

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Matt Biondi

Matt Biondi is an American former swimmer known for sprint freestyle and relay success across three Olympic Games.

Early life

California aquatics

Combined swimming with water polo in Moraga and at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

  1. 1983

    Berkeley

    Joined its swimming and water polo programmes.

  2. 1984

    Olympic debut

    Won relay gold in Los Angeles.

  3. 1992

    Third Games

    Completed his Olympic career in Barcelona.

Achievements

Seoul Olympics

Won seven medals, five of them gold.

Olympic record

Collected eleven medals across three Games.

Beyond sport

Two sports

Also played on Berkeley’s NCAA-winning water polo team.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical data and references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum. Copyrighted image; source credit retained · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.