Bruce Furniss

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Medal record
Bruce Furniss
Bruce Furniss
Men's Swimming
Competitor for the Flag of the United States United States
Olympic Games
Gold 1976 Montreal 200m Freestyle
Gold 1976 Montreal 4x200m Freestyle
World Championsips (LC)
Silver 1975 Cali 200m Freestyle
Silver 1975 Cali 400m Freestyle
Gold 1978 Berlin 4x200m Freestyle

Bruce Furniss (born May 27, 1957) is an American swimmer. He won 2 gold medals in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal in the 200-meter freestyle and swimming a leg on the United States' 800 freestyle relay, both in world record time. [1] He attended Foothill High School and USC.

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  1. ^ 2001 Inductees For USC Athletic Hall of Fame Announced
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Olympic champions in men's 200 m freestyle

1900: Frederick Lane | 1968: Michael Wenden | 1972: Mark Spitz | 1976: Bruce Furniss | 1980: Sergey Kopliakov | 1984: Michael Gross | 1988: Duncan Armstrong | 1992: Yevgeny Sadovyi | 1996: Danyon Loader | 2000: Pieter van den Hoogenband | 2004: Ian Thorpe
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Olympic champions in men's 4x200 m freestyle relay

1908: Great Britain (Derbyshire, Radimilovic, Foster, Taylor) | 1912: Australasia (Healy, Champion, Boardman, Hardwick) | 1920: USA (McGillivray, Kealoha, Ross, Kahanamoku) | 1924: USA (Weissmuller, O'Connor, Glancy, Breyer) | 1928: USA (Weissmuller, Clapp, Laufer, Kojac) | 1932: Japan (Yusa, Miyazaki, Yokoyama, Toyoda) | 1936: Japan (Yusa, Sugiura, Arai, Taguchi) | 1948: USA (Ris, McLane, Wolf, Smith) | 1952: USA (Moore, Woolsey, Konno, McLane) | 1956: Australia (O'Halloran, Devitt, Rose, Henricks) | 1960: USA (Harrison, Blick, Troy, Farrell) | 1964: USA (Schollander, Clark, Saari, Ilman) | 1968: USA (Schollander, Spitz, Nelson, Rerych) | 1972: USA (Spitz, Kinsella, Tyler, Genter) | 1976: USA (Bruner, Furniss, Naber, Montgomery) | 1980: Soviet Union (Kopliakov, Salnikov, Stukolkin, Krylov) | 1984: USA (Heath, Larson, Float, Hayes) | 1988: USA (Dalbey, Cetlinski, Gjertsen, Biondi) | 1992: Unified Team (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Taianovich, Sadovyi) | 1996: USA (Davis, Hudepohl, Schumacher, Berube) | 2000: Australia (Thorpe, Klim, Pearson, Kirby) | 2004: USA (Phelps, Lochte, Vanderkaay, Keller)
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