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Mike Troy

1940 - 2019

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Michael Francis Troy (October 3, 1940 – August 3, 2019) was an American competitive swimmer, a two-time Olympic champion, and world record-holder in three events.The peak of Troy's swimming career occurred between 1959 and 1960 while he was coached by Doc Counsilman of the Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving team at Indiana University. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, he won his first gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Individually, he won a second gold with his first-place finish in the men's 200-meter butterfly—his signature event.Troy broke the world record in the 200-meter butterfly six consecutive times before it was taken over by fellow American swimmer Carl Robie in 1961. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mike Troy has received more than 72,558 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Mike Troy is the 131st most popular swimmer (down from 86th in 2019), the 12,590th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,823rd in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Swimmer.

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  • 73k

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  • 36.99

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  • 19

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  • 3.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Mike Troy ranks 131 out of 392Before her are Federica Pellegrini, Hannelore Anke, Ulrike Tauber, Camille Muffat, Allison Schmitt, and Sybil Bauer. After her are Sergey Koplyakov, Therese Alshammar, Tamás Darnyi, Caren Metschuck, Gemma Mengual, and Franziska van Almsick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Mike Troy ranks 531Before her are Terry McDermott, Bob Knight, Penelope Coelen, Maxine Hong Kingston, William Ferguson, and Robert Pinsky. After her are Barney Frank, Jim Clyburn, Roger K. Crouch, Cynthia Weil, Melba Moore, and Craig Brown. Among people deceased in 2019, Mike Troy ranks 521Before her are D. C. Fontana, James Frawley, Robert Ouko, Juice Wrld, Ted Burgin, and Kathleen Blanco. After her are Tommy Smith, Stephanie Niznik, Ivor Broadis, Lisa Martinek, John Carl Buechler, and Marieke Vervoort.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mike Troy ranks 12,590 out of 18,182Before her are Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. (1935), Kathleen Blanco (1942), LisaGay Hamilton (1964), Frank Coraci (1966), Noah Centineo (1996), and Hope Solo (1981). After her are Graham Rogers (1990), Ken Page (1954), Ashley Blue (1981), Walter Murphy (1952), James T. Farrell (1904), and Al D'Amato (1937).

Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Mike Troy ranks 44Before her are Sharon Stouder (1948), Bill Mulliken (1939), Eleanor Holm (1913), Matt Vogel (1957), Allison Schmitt (1990), and Sybil Bauer (1903). After her are Cathy Ferguson (1948), Melissa Belote (1956), John Hencken (1954), Shirley Babashoff (1957), Sandy Neilson (1956), and Milorad Čavić (1984).