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Tom Dolan is a two-time Olympic gold medalist in the 400 IM and a former world record holder in the event. Dolan was born on September 15, 1975 in Arlington, Virginia. He started swimming competitively for the Washington Golf and Country Club’s summer swim team when he was five years old. He became serious about swimming when he joined the Curl-Burke Swim Club. Despite his asthma, Dolan became one of the best age group swimmers not only in the Washington, DC area, but in the entire country.
He chose to attend the University of Michigan after graduating from high school in 1993.
At the 1994 US National Championships during Dolan’s freshman year, he won the 400 free, 800 free, 1,500 free, and the 400 IM. Later that year at the World Championships in Rome he set the world record in the 400 IM with a time of 4:12.30.

As the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Dolan won his first Olympic gold medal. At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Dolan successfully defended his 400 IM title, winning gold again and breaking his own world record in the process with a time of 4:11.76. Dolan held the world record in the 400 IM from 1994 to 2002. Dolan earned another Olympic medal at the Sydney Games–a silver–in the 200 IM.
Dolan, formerly the CEO of L5 Swim, is now the President of Corporate Pools for Big Blue.