George Breen

George Thomas Breen ( born July 19, 1935 in Buffalo, New York, USA ) is a retired American swimmer and swimming coach.

The long distance swimmers Breen, who started only as 17- year-old with the performance swimming, swam 6 world records. At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956, he improved the world record in the 1500 m freestyle at 13 seconds. He swam the world record time in the flow and in the final they could not be repeated, so that he only won bronze. About 400 m freestyle, he also won the bronze medal with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay of Americans, he won silver.

Breen then trained at the State University of New York at Cortland under coach James Counsilman.

At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, he won again bronze over 1500 m freestyle.

In the early 1960s began Breen his long career as a swim coach. He coached Olympic medalist at the Games of 1964, 1968 and 1972. From 1966 to 1982 he was coach of the Men's swim team at the University of Pennsylvania.

George Breen was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1975.