By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern.
It is an unfortunate reality that, in the United States, only a few swimming names are known across the nation. Beyond Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky, I seriously doubt many outside the swimming community could name more than one or two others.
Why is that? Is it because the sport of swimming doesn’t get as much national coverage as many other American favorites such as football, basketball or baseball? Maybe, but every sport’s enthusiast knows a little bit more about their sport than the general population. For example, I would bet few swimmers know the entire roster, season stats and records of Orlando City Soccer Club, but a soccer-nerd probably would. That being said, I believe people’s lack of knowledge of many tremendously talented swimmers stems from the fact that if you don’t make an Olympic team, you simply don’t get the same recognition as those who do make an Olympic team.
Randall Bal is victim to this conundrum. Bal has 13 major-international swimming medals (five gold, six silver and two bronze), along with an absurdly long list of World Cup wins. Bal has held the world record in the 50-meter backstroke multiple times, in both short-course and long-course versions of the race. He is the fifth fastest performer in history in the 50m backstroke. Perhaps his most impressive achievement was winning the FINA World Cup Series overall title in 2007.
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