Matt Biondi Biography

Specialization: 50, and m, and m butterfly Sports club: California University, Berkeley Coach A: Stuart Kan, North Thornton First Coach Sit: No Sports achievements: oi Los Angeles Gold in the relay of the Gold of the World Cup and in the relay of 4x m Batterflyi, bronze 50 and m, bronze in the prison. Combined relay of 4x m and in the relay of 4x ms Seul gold 50 and m, gold in the relay of 4x and 4x aircraft, gold in a combined relay 4x m, silver mm cup gold and in the relay of 4x m strokes, silver 50 m stove, 6th place of Barcelona Golden In the relay of 4x m aircraft, silver 50 m of the Armed Forces, 5th place of the Armed Forces Additional information: He began his career as a swimmer and player in water polo.

I won 7 medals at the Olympics, including 5 gold. In total, he won 11 medals of 8 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze at 3 olympiads, 88, in this indicator it is second only to the brand of Spitts and Michael Felps. Biondi is married, his wife is the name of Kirsten, their first son Nathaniel Nate was born in the year. In the future, they had another boy and girl. Now he works at the Parker school in Hawaii as a mathematics teacher.

Matt Biondi was born in the year in the family of an employee of an insurance company. He began to go to the pool and play the water polo from the very day with which he "remembered himself." And when he, along with his friends, arranged a deafening fireworks in his garden and was a little to burned his parental house, Nick Biondi knew well how to punish his son.

He did not read him long and tedious notations, but simply forbade him to go to the pool for a week! The punishment turned out to be much as effective, and he never again felt fate with such risky experiments as a salute in his own garden. He entered the university in Berkeley and for four seasons played for his participation in the US championship in the water floor.

And, apparently, the water polo liked the sociable and cheerful Matt much more monotonous and very tiring swimming. And even becoming a great swimmer, he loved to take part in specially invented, as his comrades joked, to console the baton with their team spirit. Seriously speaking, Matt was created for swimming, and it was not by chance that Tornon who traveled it often told reporters: “Training, but nature has long worked for us!

The builders of yachts and ships know that the potential speed of the vessel depends on the length of the keel. So the swimmer with a long distance from the fingers of the extended legs has a huge advantage over the athlete. In addition, Matt is endowed with a rare sense of water and feels like a musician his instrument, or an artist, they turn into a single whole every day, then he played basketball, baseball and was engaged in a barbell and weights and few were surprised when he again arranged a real fireworks.

Mishn-Viekho, Madrid and Bonne. Nevertheless, he managed to win a gold medal in the relay. Of course, this was a huge success of an unknown student-vatorilist, and yet the team has a team, and success in it always divided into four. And it is no coincidence that Matt's neighbor in a room in the Olympic village, the famous Rowdy Gaines constantly asked what his name was. Over the next four years, Matt was very added, and most journalists and swimming lovers long before the XXIY Olympic Games in Seoul believed that Biondi would win exactly so many gold medals, how many distances performed.

True, the swimmer himself thought differently. Unlike the great brand, a spitter who owned all world records at his “his” distances before his victorious games, he considered himself a swimmer of only one - a hundred -meter free style. A few months before the Olympic, he flew to the Bahamas and his coach and swimming there for several days with why did he do this?

Studied their technique! Moreover, his swims, along with the most intelligent animals on the ground, were shot on film by the famous scientist Albert Stevens, who for some reason always descended into the water in a cage from sharks. Then they looked through the recorded for a long time and made conclusions. This amazing experiment gave Matt a lot, and first of all, a clear idea of ​​ideal streamlines.

Yes, this I literally fought with water in every swim. Now, starting from the side, I immediately saw a picture of the free movement of the dolphins that I tried to imitate. "Communication with these amazing animals aroused thoughts not only about swimming, but also about the protection of all the living on the ground and under water. And if not so necessary acclimatization, he would only come to the very beginning of the competition.He had no desire to sit for a whole week in four walls and even more so to go out.

He never liked all this bustle with journalists, autographs and endless issues. And that is why he preferred to live in Berkeley, where few people knew him, since American sports lovers remembered only once every four years. In addition, he did not like to talk with journalists at all, who for some reason were interested in swimming not at all what he would like to talk about.

He was not interested in endless forecasts and calculation of medals, and he dreamed of confusing the athlete as a versatile person and personality, living not only with one voyage. After all, the path to the gold medal was much, on his very enlightened look in this regard, was much more interesting to conquer! It was too scary to lose due to some ridiculous accident after as many as four years of intense work and expectations.

At the same time, he led quite relaxed with representatives of the press and, if desired, could pose directly on the path with glasses raised on his forehead and he loved to joke and more than once agreed to give interviews but as soon as the swims began, Matt immediately disappointed his fans and the entire American press, receiving at his first two hundreds - two hundred meters and a hundred meters of Butterfly.

Just bronze. They expected a completely different beginning from him! And nobody cares no one to do the fact that two hundred meters of free style were for him the most uncomfortable distance and he won his third place in a very intense struggle with Australian Duncan Armstrong and Schrekh Anders Holmerstets, while overtaking the record holder of the world Mikhail Gross from Germany.

As for the buttterflya hundred, then he was guilty of this himself. Ninety -nine meters he sailed like a real champion, but on the last meter he threw off his pace and lost only one hundredth of Anthony to carry from Surinam. The segment is negligible, and nevertheless, it was enough for defeat and, as Biondi himself later repeated many times, he still cannot calmly look at this swim and everything is turned over from indignation at himself!

But then he showed everything he was capable of, and all the men's relay races passed the same scenario. Biondi started the latter and brought the US team victory with record time. Of course, these victories were the merit of more than one Matt, then they got out what was needed, and only once she allowed herself to go astray: when she tried to sing an American anthem on the podium of honor.

Then fifty and one hundred meters followed the free style, where the question of who was now reckoned with the fastest swimmer in the world was decided. Three years ago, Matt set a world record at a hundred meters, but the International Lazezer Swimming Federation introduced fifty meters, and the reference point for future world records took 22, 32 seconds, which was one hundredth better than shown biondi of unofficial result.

For two whole years, swimmers around the world tried to beat this achievement, until, finally, it was not possible to make the American Jaher, who improved the world record for nine hundredths.

As many expected, Biondi without much difficulty took gold on a hundred, not quite a little reached his own record. And when he appeared in the pool in the final of the super -sprint, much was expected from him. He met expectations, sailing fifty meters with a brilliant result of 22.14 and receiving his next gold. And according to Matt himself, it was this swim that was the closest to his ideal in his entire sports career.

Having received five gold medals at the same Olympics, Matt left for swimming, not even assuming what the six -time Olympic champion and a political economy specialist in the industrial society would now do, but he knew for sure that he would never be an advertising model and no one would ever see him in a magazine or on television in underwear and Olympic medals on the neck.

He did not want to be a jester and was going to stay in the memory of millions of fans by the great swimmer and a real guy as they knew. He was going to open his own pool, because he had not been satisfied with how the boys were taught for a long time. And he became truly scary when he saw how he had been given such a volume of work since the five years that all the joy of communicating with water immediately disappeared and training turned into painful and tedious work.

He always dreamed of a pool without paths and about classes, similar to the game. And at the same time, he always paid tribute to and taught him to swim with STU KANU and who made him the champion Thornton. According to him, they taught him not only to swim, but also to keep a cold head in any situation. And yet he did not abandon the sport and was very hoping to win a gold medal in Barcelona in the water field, to which he was going to return.

And to do this, as he believed, was much easier: since there it was necessary to fight for only one medal there.None of this happened, but if he had even won it, he would still remain in the memory of all swimming lovers thereby the only and unique Matt Biondi, who managed to collect such a solid gold yield at the Seoul Olympiad. And, of course, he had every right to tell the judges with a smile when one of his medals fell off the ribbon and almost fell into the water: “Do not worry, I have six more!