Lenny Krayzelburg

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Bobby Brewer founded the South Padre Island Open Water Festival in Texas that features Olympic gold medalists Rowdy Gaines and Lenny Krayzelburg as announcers

Lenny Krayzelburg is a four-time Olympic gold medalist in the backstroke events and a former competitive swimmer who was born in Odessa in the Soviet Union. After spending his boyhood years in what is now the Ukraine, his family immigrated to the United States to escape Soviet Jewish anti=Semitism and the call of the Soviet army, settling in a Soviet Jewish enclave in Los Angeles.

Olympic Career Highlights

  • Krayzelburg is a four-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming.
  • He won his first gold medals in each of the three events he swam at the 2000 Olympic Games––100m backstroke, 200m backstroke and 4×100m medley relay.
  • He established new Olympic records in the 100m—53.72, and 200m—1:56.76. And, his lead leg set the pace for the 400m Relay gold medal victory that set a new World record––3:33.73.

Professional Career Highlights

  • In 2005 after his swimming career was finished, Krayzelburg ventured into a new venture as a business owner starting Lenny Krayzelburg Swim Academy, a learn to swim program for children.
  • His passion for connecting people with the water was a driving force behind joining Open Water Planet where he serves as the Chief Financial Officer. The opportunity to encourage swimmers to embrace the challenges that come in an open water environment, rather than shy away from them.
  • He is the co-founder of OCEANMAN USA along with Dmytro Kachurovskyy.

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