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Thomas William Burgess (15 June 1872 – 2 July 1950) was the second person to successfully complete a swim of the English Channel after Matthew Webb., after 16 attempts. [1] Burgess was British but spent most of his life in France, and won a bronze medal with the French water polo team at the 1900 Olympics. [2]
Manel Estiarte Duocastella (born October 26, 1961, in Manresa) is a Spanish former water polo player born in Manresa, a municipality in Barcelona, Spain. He is currently a member of Pep Guardiola 's technical staff at Manchester City . [ 1 ]
[2] [3] She began playing water polo at age eight, joining the local Riverside Water Polo club before later moving to the SoCal Water Polo club. [4] She showed talent in the sport from a young age; when she was 12, she was chosen for the U.S. team at the Pan American Junior Championships, where she was against players as old as 19. [5]
Caroline "KK" Clark (born June 28, 1990) is an American female water polo player from Menlo Park, California. She was part of the American team at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain [ 1 ] and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
At age 39, she was the oldest women water polo player at the Olympic Games, helping the US women win an Olympic silver medal. She has coached water polo at Rio Hondo College in Whittier, California and at UC Berkeley from 1995 to 1997, and has a master's degree in education. In April 2006, Maureen O'Toole, was selected as a 2006 United States ...
Twenty years later, he coached the United States men's national team to a silver in 2008, [6] becoming one of a few sportspeople who won Olympic medals in water polo as players and head coaches. In 1999, Schroeder was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. [7] [8] In 2002, he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. [9]
[5] [6] In 2016, she became the first African-American woman to make the US Olympic team in water polo. She was part of the gold-medal winning 2016 and 2020 U.S. women's water polo Olympic teams, and earned a spot on the 2024 U.S. women's water polo Olympic team. [7] [8] She is a 2017 graduate of Princeton University. She is 6'1" tall and her ...
Dr. Gergely "Gergő" Kiss (born 21 September 1977) [2] is a Hungarian former water polo player. He was considered to be one of the best left-handed water polo players of his time. Kiss is one of six male athletes who won three Olympic gold medals in water polo. He played on the right side, but moved to 2-meters on offense sometimes.