Bobby Hackett (swimmer)
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| Full name | Robert William Hackett, Jr. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Bobby" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 15, 1959 Yonkers, New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 183 lb (83 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Bernal's Gator Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Harvard University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robert William Hackett, Jr. (born August 15, 1959) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. He represented the United States at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec as a 16-year-old, where he won a silver medal in the men's 1500-meter freestyle, finishing behind U.S. teammate Brian Goodell.[1]
He was trained by coach Joe Bernal. Bernal, the former head coach of Bernal's Gator Swim Club in Boston, Massachusetts, was known to have given Hackett 100 x 100 yard sets on the 1:00 interval. Hackett still holds one of the oldest National Age Group records, a 15:03.91 in the 1,500-meter freestyle (long-course meters). He set the record by shattering the previous record at the 1976 Olympics.
As of 2012, Hackett was living and working in the New York metro area, near where he grew up. He has made a living in commercial real estate and is volunteer coaching with the Boys and Girls Club of Northern Westchester Marlins.[2] He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1986.[3] Hackett now coaches part-time for Emory University's swimming and diving team.
See also
[edit]- List of Harvard University people
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 800 metres freestyle
- World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay
References
[edit]- ^ "Swimming at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games: Men's 1,500 metres freestyle". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved May 28, 2011.
- ^ http://swimswam.com/2012/12/the-most-enduring-usa-national-age-group-records-and-why/ Archived 2012-12-08 at the Wayback Machine Swim Swam
- ^ "Robert W. Hackett Jr., Class of 1977 - Fordham Preparatory School".
External links
[edit]- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bobby Hackett". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020.
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- American male freestyle swimmers
- World record setters in swimming
- Harvard Crimson men's swimmers
- Sportspeople from Yonkers, New York
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Fordham Preparatory School alumni
- Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1975 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in swimming
- Harvard Business School alumni
- 20th-century American sportsmen