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Mike Barrowman
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprise of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896. The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent at least one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Michael Ray Barrowman was born on December 4, 1968 in Costa Mesa, California and was an Olympic swimmer for the United States and one of the pioneers of the Wave-Style breaststroke technique. He stood 4th in the 1988 Summer Olympics in the 200 meters breaststroke. In 1992 he returned to the Olympics and won the gold medal in the same event. He later temporarily retired from swimming and took up competitive rowing. He is now a coach in the Cayman Islands.
Between 1989 and 1991, he won three consecutive NCAA, National Collegiate Athletic Association titles in the 200 yard breaststroke. His NCAA record of 1 minute 53 seconds and 77 milliseconds from 1990, would stand strong for eleven seasons, and was the oldest men’s NCAA record until 2001, when it was finally broken by Brendan Hansen.
He was named Male World Swimmer of the Year in 1989 and 1990 by Swimming World magazine. With all his dedication and devotion in his play he achieved many goals in his overall athletic career. He had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by just giving some extra hard work and efforts. He never lost hope in himself and always fought hard to achieve his goal.
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