Jon Henricksとは 意味・読み方・使い方

John ("Jon") Malcolm Henricks (born 6 June 1935) started his swimming career as a distance swimmer, scoring his first real successes in 1952 when he came in 3rd in the Australian 1500 meters, 2nd in the 800, and won the 400 meters. The distance work proved too arduous, perhaps due to a prolonged ear infection that kept him off the 1952 Summer Olympics team. With reluctance, his coach Harry Gallagher converted him to sprints. Henricks shocked both his coach and the Australian swimming community by promptly breaking the Olympic record for 100 meters in the Australian Championships of 1953. He subsequently held the fastest time in the world over 100 meters long course for five years, winning two gold medals in 1956 (100m and 4x200m). He lowered the existing record by almost 2 seconds.