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American swimmer

Anthony Lee Ervin (born May 26, 1981) is an American competition swimmer who has won four Olympic medals and two World Championship golds. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the men's 50 meter freestyle, and earned a silver medal as a member of the second place United States relay team in the 4×100 meter freestyle event. He was the second swimmer of African descent after Anthony Nesty of Suriname to win an individual gold medal in Olympic swimming. He is the first United States citizen of African descent to medal gold in an individual Olympic swimming event. In 2017 he knelt for the National Anthem prior to the start of a competition in Brazil. Ervin stopped swimming competitively at the age of 22 in 2003 and auctioned off his 2000 Olympic gold medal on eBay to aid survivors of the 2004 tsunami, but he began to train again in 2011. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, 16 years after his first Olympic gold medal, he won the event for the second time, at the age of 35, becoming the oldest individual Olympic gold medal winner in swimming.

Ervin won two gold medals at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in the 50 meter freestyle and the 100 meter freestyle. He also competed in the 4 x 100 freestyle relay, but the United States relay team was disqualified. At the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships Ervin won silver medals in both the 50 meter freestyle and the 4 x 100 freestyle relay.

Twelve years after competing in his last Olympics as a 19 year old, Ervin qualified for his second United States Olympic team as a 31 year old at the 2012 United States Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, by finishing second in the men's 50 meter freestyle. His time of 21.60 seconds was only one one hundredth (0.01) of a second behind Cullen Jones (21.59) and also a personal best for Ervin. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he finished fifth in the finals of the 50 meter freestyle with a time of 21.78 seconds. Ervin made history with Jones and Lia Neal by being the first African Americans on a U. S. Olympic swim team with more than one African American swimmer. He won gold medals in the 50 meter freestyle (with a time of 22.05 seconds), the 100 meter freestyle (with a time of 49.76 seconds), and the 4 × 100 m medley relay (with the Americans clocking 3:41.82). In the special 4x50m relay race between Israeli and American all star teams, American Olympic champions Ervin, Lenny Krayzelburg (four Olympic golds), and Jason Lezak (four Olympic golds), with masters swimmer Alex Blavatnik, swam a time of 1:48.23 and defeated Israeli Olympians Guy Barnea, Yoav Bruck, Eran Groumi, and Tal Stricker, who had a time of 1:51.25.

The week of competition at the 2021 World Short Course Championships, held at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Ervin conducted a swim clinic with Florian Wellbrock of Germany for young swimmers.

In 2003 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.