Full name William Norval Craig Strokes Breaststroke Weight 77 kg Sport Swimming Height 1.80 m | National team United States Role Olympic athlete Nickname(s) "Bill" Name Bill Craig | |
Born January 16, 1945 (age 79) ( 1945-01-16 ) Culver City, California College team University of Southern California Education University of Southern California | ||
William Norval Craig (January 16, 1945 – January 1, 2017) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder. He represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he won a gold medal by swimming the breaststroke leg for the first-place U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Craig and his teammates Thompson Mann (backstroke), Fred Schmidt (butterfly) and Steve Clark (freestyle) set a new medley relay world record of 3:58.4. Craig attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he swam for the USC Trojans swimming and diving team. He graduated in 1967.
Craig was last married to Patty Craig, with whom he had a son Christian; he also has a son Rick and daughter Kimber from a previous marriage.