{"id":145902,"date":"2015-07-28T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=145902"},"modified":"2015-07-29T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T00:21:57","slug":"30mostswimfluential-matt-biondi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/30mostswimfluential-matt-biondi\/","title":{"rendered":"#30MostSwimfluential: Matt Biondi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Who is Matt Biondi?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An\u00a011-time Olympic medalist who competed in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Games, winning eight gold, two silver, and one bronze medal in total.<\/li>\n<li>Did not start swimming year-round until he entered Campolindo High School. By his senior year, he had achieved a national high school record in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 20.40.<\/li>\n<li>After high school, he enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley in 1983 on scholarship to play water polo and to swim. He had a successful first year competing in the NCAA championships as a member of the water polo team and was a NCAA consolation finalist in swimming.<\/li>\n<li>At the 1984 Olympic Trials, Biondi was one of the surprises of the meet when he qualified for a spot on the 400&#215;100 free relay. The team went on to win the event at the L.A.Olympics.<\/li>\n<li>The 1988 Games were Biondi\u2019s most successful Olympics. He came away with five golds, one silver and one bronze. While he lost the 100-meter butterfly by a single one-hundredth of a second. He was the only man under 49 seconds in the 100 freestyle final, setting an Olympic Record.<\/li>\n<li>At the 1992 Olympics, Biondi added two more gold medals and a silver to his medal collection.<\/li>\n<li>During his entire career, Biondi set three individual world records in the 50 free and four in the 100 free.<\/li>\n<li>Following the 1992 Olympics, Biondi retired, which he has attributed to a multiple of factors including lack of financial assistance.<\/li>\n<li>Biondi married <strong>Kirsten Metzger<\/strong> in 1995. He now resides with her and their three children in his home state of California, where he teaches middle school math at Sierra Canyon School. He\u2019s also taken over the school\u2019s swim programs at the middle and high school levels.<\/li>\n<li>Biondi is still an active member of the swimming community. He is an successful\u00a0Masters swimmer and continues to break world records.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How did he influence the swimming community?<\/h2>\n<p>Matt Biondi will forever be known as one of the great Olympic Champions. He is remembered as the man who attempted to challenge Mark Spitz\u2019s record of seven Olympic gold medals before <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong> came along. While he did not quite reach that goal, his haul of five gold, one silver and one bronze in 1988 was a huge feat. Biondi was also one of the swimmers to usher in the era of true professional swimming. He has attributed his retirement after the 1992 Games partially to a lack of financial assistance. 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