Doug Northway Explained

Doug Northway
Fullname:	Douglas Dale Northway
Nicknames:	"Doug"
National Team:	United States
Strokes:	Freestyle
Club:	Oasis Aquatic Club
Collegeteam:	University of Arizona
Birth Date:	April 28, 1955
Birth Place:	Ontario, California
Height:	5feet
Weight:	160lb

Douglas Dale Northway (born April 28, 1955) is an American former swimmer, who represented the United States at two consecutive Olympic Games.

Olympics

• As a 17-year-old at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Northway received a bronze medal for his third-place performance in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle (16:09.25).^[1]
• Four years later at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, he swam for the gold medal-winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay.^[1]

He did not receive a medal for his 1976 relay effort, however, because only relay swimmers who competed in the event final were medal-eligible under the rules then in effect.

Convictions

Plead Guilty to "attempted child molestation" in April 1997, "Doug Northway, 42, was charged in January with two counts of child molestation for allegedly molesting the girl in the summer of 1995. Those charges were dropped after he pleaded guilty in April to attempting to molest the girl, court records show."^[2]

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
• List of University of Arizona people
• World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay

External links

• Doug Northway . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120127183059/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/no/doug-northway-1.html . 2012-01-27 .

Notes and References

1. Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Doug Northway . Retrieved November 18, 2012.
2. Web site: Olympian pleads guilty to attempted molesting - Tucson Citizen Morgue, Part 2 (1993-2009) . 2023-10-18 . tucsoncitizen.com.