Hunter Armstrong - Olympic Gold Medal winning swimmer Hunter Armstrong on preparing for Paris 2024 and putting God first
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Hunter Armstrong is a swimmer for the United States who won Gold in the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 4 x 100 m medley.
He is the world record holder in the long course 50 meter backstroke. At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, he won a silver medal in the 50 meter backstroke, a bronze medal in the 100 meter backstroke, gold medals in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay and 4×100 meter mixed medley relay, and a silver medal in the 4×100 meter medley relay.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Hunter Armstrong about his 2020 Olympic experience, his journey with Jesus and his preparation for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys, today on Sports Spectrum, a really cool conversation with an Olympic gold medalist, Hunter Armstrong, Olympic swimmer, American competitive swimmer for the United States. |
| 0:12.5 | joins us here today on the show at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, back of course, in 2021 because of the pandemic. |
| 0:19.2 | He won a gold medal in the 4 by 100 meter medley relay, swimming backstroke in the |
| 0:25.6 | preliminaries, and he placed 9th in the 100 meter backstroke. |
| 0:29.2 | So this is a guy who has an Olympic gold medal, and now he's getting ready to try and get |
| 0:33.8 | another one, maybe a few more Olympic gold medals in the 2024 summer Olympic Games. |
| 0:40.7 | He's the world record holder in the long course 50 meter backstroke, and at the 2022 World Aquatics |
| 0:47.0 | Championship, he took a gold medal in the 4 by 100 meter freestyle relay, the 4 by 100 meter |
| 0:53.6 | mixed medley relay, and a silver medal in the 4 by 100 meter freestyle relay, the 4 by 100 meter mixed medley relay, and a silver medal in the 4 by 100 |
| 0:57.9 | meter medley relay. He's got a lot of medals, Hunter Armstrong, and he's going to talk about them, |
| 1:03.5 | and of course, his walk with Jesus here in just a moment. He's going to be talking to my friend |
| 1:08.2 | Cole Claiborne, our colleague here at Sports Spectrum. He works as a contributing producer. He's going to be talking to my friend Cole Claiborne, our colleague here at Sports |
| 1:10.8 | Spectrum. He works as a contributing producer. He's going to be filling in today for me on |
| 1:16.3 | today's conversation with Hunter. So Cole and Hunter, it's coming up in just a moment here on |
| 1:21.3 | Sports Spectrum. First, I want to remind you about our friends at Water Mission. You can go to |
| 1:25.8 | watermission.org slash join the team and learn more |
| 1:28.8 | about this great ministry bringing clean water, safe water, safe sanitation, and hygiene |
| 1:35.3 | solutions to developing countries and disaster areas all around the world. We're talking about |
| 1:40.7 | Hunter Armstrong as a guest as a swimmer in the water, right? Well, imagine going |
| 1:45.3 | across the world and realizing that people can't even go take a cup and get clean water to drink |
| 1:50.4 | from each and every day or just go to the bathroom like you and I do each and every day, safe hygiene |
| 1:56.7 | solutions. Well, that's what water mission does. That's why they're so amazing. Christ-centered, |
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