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Full name | Donald Graham Smith | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | May 9, 1958|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke, medley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Calgary Dinos, Calgary (CAN) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Berkeley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Nort Thornton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Donald Graham Smith (born May 9, 1958) is a Canadian former competition swimmer who swam for the University of California Berkeley, and won a silver medal in the men's 4x100-metre medley relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec. He did so alongside teammates Stephen Pickell, Clay Evans and Gary MacDonald. His brother George and sister Becky also competed in swimming.
Smith attended the University of California Berkeley where he swam under Hall of Fame Coach Nort Thornton. During his time at Berkeley, he won an NCAA national swimming championship. [1] [2]
At the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, he became the first competitor to win six gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games; he won the 100- and 200-metre breaststroke, 200- and 400-metre individual medleys, and was part of the winning 4x100-metre freestyle and 4x100-metre medley relay teams. Smith twice broke the world record in the men's 200-metre individual medley (long course).
Taking off a year from college to train for the 1980 Summer Olympics, he lost his chance to participate when the games were boycotted by Canada. Though he had been considered Canada's greatest swimmer, in 1982 he formally left competitive swimming, and served as a coach for several years before earning an MBA from St. Mary’s College of California. In 2013 he owned a Canadian consulting firm in British Columbia. [2]
Smith was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1978. [3]
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