Bill Stapleton (swimmer)
Appearance
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | William Joseph Stapleton | |||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Bill" | |||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
Born | July 12, 1965 | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 163 lb (74 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Individual medley | |||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Texas | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
William Joseph Stapleton (born July 12, 1965) is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He competed in the B Final of the men's 200-meter individual medley event, and finished with the sixteenth-best time overall.[1]
Stapleton was cyclist Lance Armstrong's agent for nearly 20 years, including the time of Armstrong's doping scandal.[2] Stapleton was portrayed by American actor Lee Pace in the 2015 film The Program.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Bill Stapleton Archived 2012-11-13 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
- ^ "Lance Armstrong given $10m bill after losing lawsuit". BBC News. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
Categories:
- 1965 births
- Living people
- American male butterfly swimmers
- American male medley swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for the United States
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Texas Longhorns men's swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- 21st-century American sportsmen
- American swimming biography stubs