BRUCE FURNISS Hand Signed 4X6 Photo - USA OLYMPIC 2 GOLD MEDAL SWIMMER 1976

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Bruce Furniss
Bruce (left) and Steve Furniss in 1976
Personal information
Full name
Bruce MacFarlane Furniss
National team
United States
Born
May 27, 1957
(age 64)
Fresno, California
, U.S.
Height
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight
161 lb (73 kg)
Sport
Sport
Swimming
Strokes
Freestyle
,
individual medley
Club
Long Beach Swim Club
College team
University of Southern California
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Medal record
Representing
the United States
Olympic Games
1976 Montreal
200 m freestyle
1976 Montreal
4×200 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
1975 Cali
4×100 m freestyle
1978 West Berlin
4×200 m freestyle
1975 Cali
200 m freestyle
1975 Cali
400 m freestyle
Bruce  Furniss (born May 27, 1957) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder in four events. At the
1976 Summer Olympics
in Montreal, Quebec, he won the 200-meter freestyle and was a member of the winning U.S. team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, both in world record time.
Swimming career
Furniss broke ten
world
and nineteen
American records
, and won eleven
Amateur Athletic Union
and six
NCAA
titles. He was an integral part of
USC
's
NCAA
National Collegiate Championship winning teams of
1976
and
1977
. While at USC, Furniss was coached by the legendary
Peter Daland
, who guided the school's men's swimming team to nine National Titles in his 35 years as the school's coach (1957 to 1992).
High School
Furniss is a 1975 graduate of Tustin, California's
Foothill High School
where he was coached by
Tom Delong
,
California Interscholastic Federation
's all-time winningest high school swim coach. As a Junior at the 1974
CIF-SS
Championships, Furniss broke Mark Spitz' National Interscholastic High School Record in the 200-yard Individual Medley and then in 1975 topped the record again. Furniss-led teams won the
CIF-SS
Championship Title in 1972, 1973 and 1974. Two of those years, Furniss teamed with
Rod Strachan
, whom Furniss would later swim with at USC and with whom was a teammate on the 1976 U.S. Olympic Men's Swim Team. At the
1976 Olympic Games
, Strachan would best Bruce's older brother, Steve, winning the Olympic Gold Medal in the
400-meter Individual Medley
in a world record time.
1976 Olympics
Furniss was a member of the 1976 U.S. Olympic men's swimming team, which was coached by three American swimming giants,
Indiana University
's
Doc Counsilman
,
Santa Clara Swim Club
's
George Haines
, and the
University of Alabama
's
Don Gambril
, all
International Swimming Hall of Fame
Coaches. The 1976 U.S. Olympic Men's Swim Team is regarded by most sports historians as the most dominating Olympic sports team ever assembled, winning 12 of 13 (92%) possible gold medals and 27 of 35 (77%) possible total medals. Furniss won Olympic gold in the
200-meter freestyle
, (one of three Americans to ever win this Olympic event;
Mark Spitz
in 1972 and
Michael Phelps
in 2008 being the other two), and the
4×200-meter freestyle relay
, setting world records in each event. On July 19, 1976, the second day of the 1976 Olympic swimming program, Furniss won the
200-meter freestyle
with a winning time of 1:50.29, leading an American sweep finishing ahead of fellow Americans
John Naber
(silver) and
Jim Montgomery
(bronze). Two days later, on July 21, 1976, he teamed up with
Naber
,
Montgomery
and
Mike Bruner
on the
4×200-meter freestyle relay
with a winning time of 7:23.22. On that relay, Furniss, who swam the second leg, became the first person ever to break the 1:50 second barrier, splitting 1:49.56 (53.77/55.79).
World championships
Furniss also garnered two gold and two silver medals in the
1975 World Aquatics Championships
in Cali, Colombia and
1978 World Aquatics Championships
in West Berlin.
World records
As a 7-year-old in 1964, Furniss was inspired by the four gold medal performance of American swimmer
Don Schollander
, who broke the 200-meter freestyle world record ten times during his career. Eleven years later, Furniss became the twelfth of fourteen Americans in history to break the 200-meter freestyle world record. During his career he broke the 200-meter freestyle world record four different times, which included breaking the world record twice on the same day (June 18, 1975). Furniss laid claim to the 200-meter freestyle world record from 1975 to 1979.