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| Full name | Anthony Lee Ervin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Tony | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 26, 1981 Santa Clarita, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 176 lb (80 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | AnthonyErvin.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of California, Berkeley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Nort Thornton (U. Cal. Berkeley) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anthony Lee Ervin (born May 26, 1981) is an American competition swimmer who has won four Olympic medals and two World Championship golds. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the men's 50-meter freestyle, and earned a silver medal as a member of the second-place United States relay team in the 4×100-meter freestyle event. He was the second swimmer of African descent after Anthony Nesty of Suriname to win an individual gold medal in Olympic swimming.[1] He is the first United States citizen of African descent to medal gold in an individual Olympic swimming event.[2] In 2017 he knelt for the National Anthem prior to the start of a competition in Brazil.[3][4]
Ervin stopped swimming competitively at the age of 22 in 2003[5] and auctioned off his 2000 Olympic gold medal on eBay to aid survivors of the 2004 tsunami,[6][7][8] but he began to train again in 2011.[7]
Ervin competed in the 50-meter freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics where he placed fifth.[9] In the spring of 2016, Akashic Books released Ervin's memoir, Chasing Water, co-authored by Ervin and Constantine Markides.[10] At the 2016 Summer Olympics, 16 years after his first Olympic gold medal, he won the event for the second time, at the age of 35, becoming the oldest individual Olympic gold medal winner in swimming.[11]
- ^ "Black History". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on February 25, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
- ^ Marable, Rhonda (February 11, 2015). "Making History: Men of African Descent in Swimming". USA Swimming. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
- ^ Pimer, Diana (October 16, 2017). "Anthony Ervin Makes Statement After Kneeling for National Anthem at Raia Rapida". SwimmingWorldMagazine.com.
- ^ "Anthony Ervin Discusses Olympic Podium Protests and Rule 50". SwimSwam. May 10, 2021. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ Kelly, Barry (July 6, 2004). "Olympic Gold Medalist Anthony Ervin Gives Up Swimming, Fame and Money". The Daily Californian. Archived from the original on July 5, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
- ^ Brady, Erik (June 27, 2012). "Anthony Ervin has no regrets, feels lucky to be at trials". USA Today. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
- ^ a b Borzi, Pat (June 28, 2012). "Spreading Joy of Swimming, Ex-Olympian Finds It Again". The New York Times. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
- ^ Newberry, Paul (May 18, 2012). "Ervin, Swimming's Mystery Man, Returns to the Pool". Associated Press. Archived from the original on February 23, 2013. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
washingtonpost 2012-07-01was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Ervin, Anthony; Markides, Constantine (April 5, 2016). Chasing Water: Elegy of an Olympian. Edge of Sports. ISBN 9781617754449.
- ^ Gibbs, Robert (August 12, 2016). "Ervin passes Phelps to become oldest swimmer to win solo gold". Swimswam. Retrieved August 13, 2016.