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TritonWear Race Analysis: 2016 Olympics Women’s 100 Freestyle

Full Name:	Mel Monroe Stewart
Nickname(s):	Gold Medal Mel, Mel
Born:	November 16th, 1968
	Gastonia, North Carolina
Nationality:	United States
Status:	Retired

MEL STEWART Jr., aka Gold Medal Mel, won three Olympic medals at the 1992 Olympic Games. Mel's best event was the 200 butterfly. He is a former World, American, and NCAA Record holder in the 200 butterfly. As a writer/producer and sports columnist, Mel has contributed to Yahoo Sports, Universal Sports, and USA Swimming. Mel has also worked as an Olympic analyst for ABC, NBC, EPSN, FOX SPORTS and TBS. Mel Stewart is a co-founder of SwimSwam.com where he manages all advertising partnerships. At SwimSwam.com, Mel hosts Gold Medal Minute presented by SwimOutlet.com, a video series featuring the world’s fastest swimmers and Olympic medalists. See all Gold Medal Minute espisodes here. LITTLE GOLD MEDAL MELVIN As a child Mel was known as Little Melvin. Mel lived in Gastonia, North Carolina, unitl the age of 7. His father, Big Melvin, and mother, Myra Stewart, moved the family 40 miles east to Charlotte, North Carolina after getting jobs working for Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, founders of the PTL Club, a Christian ministry and television talk show. Mel's mother coached his sister, Kim Stewart, and he in a swimming pool directly under Jim Bakker's television studio. Mel attributes his resistant to butterfly pain to his mother's daily workouts which included 50 …

TritonWear Race Analysis: 2016 Olympics Women’s 100 Freestyle

TritonWear brings you the 2016 Summer Games with daily in-depth race analysis of every final.

TritonWear Race Analysis: 2016 Olympics Men’s 200 IM

TritonWear brings you the 2016 Summer Games with daily in-depth race analysis of every final.

2016 Olympics: Day 7 Prelims Photo Vault

Thanks to photographer Simone Castrovillari for these Olympic swimming photos.

TritonWear Race Analysis: 2016 Olympics Men’s 200 IM

TritonWear brings you the 2016 Summer Games with daily in-depth race analysis of every final.

TritonWear Race Analysis: 2016 Olympics Men’s 200 Backstroke

TritonWear brings you the 2016 Summer Games with daily in-depth race analysis of every final.

TritonWear Race Analysis: 2016 Olympics Women’s 200 Breaststroke

TritonWear brings you the 2016 Summer Games with daily in-depth race analysis of every final.

2016 Olympics: Day 6 Finals Photo Vault

Thanks to photographer Simone Castrovillari for these Olympic Swimming Photos.

TritonWear Race Analysis: 2016 Olympics Women’s 200 Butterfly

TritonWear brings you the 2016 Summer Games with daily in-depth race analysis of every final.

TritonWear Race Analysis: 2016 Olympics Women’s 4×200 Free Relay

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2016 Olympics: Day 6 Prelims Photo Vault

Thanks to photographer Simone Castrovillari for these Olympic swimming photos.

TritonWear Race Analysis: 2016 Olympics Men’s 100 Freestyle

TritonWear brings you the 2016 Summer Games with daily in-depth race analysis of every final.

TritonWear Race Analysis: 2016 Olympics Men’s 200 Breaststroke

TritonWear brings you the 2016 Summer Games with daily in-depth race analysis of every final.

2016 Olympics: Day 5 Finals Photo Vault

Thanks to photographer Simone Castrovillari for these Olympic swimming photos.

Most Dominant Swims of the 2016 Olympic Games Day 3 and 4

Daily Dominance is the best way to describe the swimming competition in Rio.

2016 Olympics: Day 5 Prelims Photo Vault

Thanks to photographer Simone Castrovillari for these Olympic swimming photos.