Bill Craig, American swimmer, Died at 71

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William Norval Craig was born on January 16, 1945, and died on January 1, 2017.

He was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder.

Craig represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he won a gold medal as swimming the breaststroke leg for the first-place U.S. team in the men’s 4×100-meter medley relay.

Himself and his teammates Thompson Mann (backstroke), Fred Schmidt (butterfly) and Steve Clark (freestyle) set a new medley relay world record of 3:58.4.

He attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he swam for the USC Trojans swimming and diving team.

Bill Craig passed away at 71 years old.