Jay Mortenson
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| Full name | Jay Paul Mortenson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 26, 1966 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke, butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Maple Bluff Country Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jay Paul Mortenson (born September 26, 1966) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
As a high school competitor from 1982 to 1985 at West High School in Madison, Wisconsin, Mortenson won a total of ten individual state championships, with the team winning state titles in each of those seasons.[1]
Swimming for the Stanford Cardinal from 1986 to 1989, Mortenson was a part of four team conference titles in the Pac-10 and two NCAA national championships (1986 and 1987). Individually, Jay collected ten Pac-10 titles, with three in the 100-yard backstroke, three in the 100-yard butterfly, three in the 400-yard medley relay, and one in the 200-yard medley relay.[2][3] With individual NCAA titles, Jay won the 100-yard butterfly in 1988 and 1989, the 100-yard backstroke in 1988, and the 400-yard medley relay in 1987.[4]
At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, Mortenson earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Jay also finished sixth in the final of the men's 100-meter butterfly, and eleventh overall in the B Final of the men's 100-meter backstroke.[5]
Mortenson was inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011[6] and the Madison Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.[7][8]
See also
References
- ^ "Boys Swimming & Diving History". wiaawi.org. Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
- ^ "Pac-12 Champions". gostanford.com. Stanford Athletics. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
- ^ "Senior Jay Mortenson won..." latimes.com. The Los Angeles Times. March 12, 1989.
- ^ "Stanford Men's Swimming Championship History" (PDF). gostanford.com. Stanford Athletics. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Jay Mortenson Archived 2012-10-19 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ^ "Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame". gostanford.com. Stanford Cardinal. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
- ^ "Hall of Fame". madisonsportshalloffame.org. Madison Sports Hall of Fame Club. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
- ^ "Quartet inducted as 50th class to Madison Sports Hall of Fame". madison.com. Wisconsin State Journal. June 6, 2012.