Melvin Monroe ("Mel") Stewart (born November 16, 1968 in Gastonia, North Carolina) is an American former swimmer, who won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Stewart graduated from Mercersburg Academy and the University of Tennessee. Stewart won the Gold medal and set an Olympic record in the 200-meter butterfly at the 1992 Olympics.
Stewart was known as the greatest 200m butterfly swimmer of his ...
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Melvin Monroe ("Mel") Stewart (born November 16, 1968 in Gastonia, North Carolina) is an American former swimmer, who won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Stewart graduated from Mercersburg Academy and the University of Tennessee. Stewart won the Gold medal and set an Olympic record in the 200-meter butterfly at the 1992 Olympics.
Stewart was known as the greatest 200m butterfly swimmer of his era. Not only did the 14-time National champion win the 200m event at the 1991 Perth World Championships, defeating legendary Hall of Famers Michael Gross of Germany and Tamás Darnyi of Hungary, he became the gold medallist at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in Olympic record time, 1:56.26. Stewart, the world-record holder since 1991, won a second gold as a preliminary heat member of the 4x100m medley relay and a bronze on the 4x200m freestyle relay. In his first Olympic Games at Seoul in 1988, he placed fifth in the 200m butterfly. Stewart held...
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