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Chris Jacobs Personal information Full name Christopher Charles Jacobs Nickname(s) "Chris" Nationality 
United StatesBorn September 25, 1964 Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Weight 82 kilograms (180 lb) Sport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) freestyle Medal recordMen's swimming Competitor for the United StatesOlympic Games Gold 1988 Seoul 4×100 m freestyle Gold 1988 Seoul 4×100 m medley Silver 1988 Seoul 100 m freestyle Pan Pacific Championships Gold 1987 Brisbane 4×100 m freestyle Christopher ("Chris") Charles Jacobs (born September 25, 1964) is an Olympic swimmer from Livingston, New Jersey who won two gold medals and a silver medal representing the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.[1]
References
- ^ Litsky, Frank. "THE SEOUL OLYMPICS; Swimmer Outraces His Past", The New York Times, September 18, 1988. Accessed April 11, 2008. "At the age of 12, Chris Jacobs of Livingston, N.J., tried cocaine for the first time."
Sources
1988 USA Olympic Swimming Team Men's Team Mike Barrowman • David Berkoff • Steve Bigelow • Matt Biondi • Matt Cetlinski • Troy Dalbey • Mark Dean • Doug Gjertsen • Chris Jacobs • Tom Jager • Shaun Jordan • Dan Jorgensen • Lars Jorgensen • Jeff Kostoff • Brett Lang • Jay Mortenson • Craig Oppel • Rich Schroeder • Kirk Stackle • Bill Stapleton • Melvin Stewart • Dan Veatch • Daniel Watters • Dave Wharton
Women's Team Beth Barr • Tami Bruce • Janet Evans • Leigh Ann Fetter • Erika Hansen • Andrea Hayes • Whitney Hedgepeth • Janel Jorgensen • Mitzi Kremer • Susan Lipscomb • Tracey McFarlane • Mary T. Meagher • Betsy Mitchell • Trina Radke • Susan Rapp • Jill Sterkel • Dara Torres • Laura Walker • Mary Wayte • Paige Zemina
Coaches Steve Bultman • Dick Hannula (manager) • Mitch Ivey • Frank Keefe • Skip Kenney • Richard Quick • Eddie Reese • Randy Reese • Mark Schubert
Olympic Champions in Men's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay 1964: USA (Clark, Austin, Ilman, Schollander) • 1968: USA (Zorn, Rerych, Spitz, Walsh) • 1972: USA (Edgar, Murphy, Heidenreich, Spitz) • 1984: USA (Cavanaugh, Heath, Biondi, Gaines) • 1988: USA (Jacobs, Dalbey, Jager, Biondi) • 1992: USA (Hudepohl, Biondi, Jager, Olsen) • 1996: USA (Olsen, Davis, Schumacher, Hall, Jr.) • 2000: Australia (Klim, Fydler, Callus, Thorpe) • 2004: South Africa (Schoeman, Ferns, Townsend, Neethling) • 2008: USA (Phelps, Weber-Gale, Jones, Lezak)
Olympic Champions in Men's 4×100 m Medley Relay 1960: USA (McKinney, Hait, Larson, Farrell) • 1964: USA (Mann, Craig, Schmidt, Clark) • 1968: USA (Hickcox, McKenzie, Russell, Walsh) • 1972: USA (Stamm, Bruce, Spitz, Heidenreich) • 1976: USA (Naber, Hencken, Vogel, Montgomery) • 1980: Australia (Kerry, Evans, Tonelli, Brooks) • 1984: USA (Carey, Lundquist, Morales, Gaines) • 1988: USA (Berkoff, Schroeder, Biondi, Jacobs) • 1992: USA (Rouse, Diebel, Morales, Olsen) • 1996: USA (Rouse, Linn, Henderson, Hall, Jr.) • 2000: USA (Krayzelburg, Moses, Crocker, Hall, Jr.) • 2004: USA (Peirsol, Hansen, Crocker, Lezak) • 2008: USA (Peirsol, Hansen, Phelps, Lezak)
Pan Pacific Champions in Men's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay 1985: USA (McCadam, Heath, Wallace, Biondi) • 1987: USA (Jacobs, Oppel, Dalbey, Biondi) • 1989: USA (Lang, Olsen, Gjertsen, Jager) • 1991: USA (Jordan, Jager, Olsen, Biondi) • 1993: USA (Hudepohl, Pepper, Fox, Olsen) • 1995: USA (Fox, Hudepohl, Olsen, Hall) • 1997: USA (Tucker, Schumacher, Olsen, Walker) • 1999: AUS (Klim, English, Fydler, Thorpe) • 2002: AUS (Callus, Pearson, Hackett, Thorpe) • 2006: USA (Phelps, Walker, Jones, Lezak) • 2010: USA (Phelps, Lochte, Lezak, Adrian)
Categories:- 1964 births
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- American swimmers
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- Former world record holders in swimming
- People from Livingston, New Jersey
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Male freestyle swimmers
- American swimming Olympic medalist stubs
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