Jon Sieben
Jon Scott Seven ( born August 24, 1966 in Brisbane ) is a former Australian swimmer.
In contrast to the outstanding swimmer of his time, the German Michael Gross with a height of 2.00 meters, Seven is big only 1.73 meters. He had his most successful moments. During the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles when he Olympic champion in the 200 meters butterfly was a complete surprise and still set a new world record by he improved his personal best by more than a second The favorite Michael Gross and Pablo Morales out in the cold.
In the following seven games Jon could not qualify in the Australian team for this route itself.
1956: William Yorzyk | 1960: Michael Troy | 1964: Kevin Berry | 1968: Carl Robie | 1972: Mark Spitz | 1976: Michael Bruner | 1980: Sergiy Fesenko | 1984: Jonathan Seven | 1988: Michael Gross | 1992: Melvin Stewart | 1996: Denis Pankratov | 2000: Tom Malchow | 2004: Michael Phelps | 2008: Michael Phelps | 2012: Chad le Clos
List of Olympic gold medalist in swimming
- Swimmer (Australia)
- Olympian (Australia)
- Man
- Olympic gold medalist ( swimming)
- Born in 1966