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'''Mark Tewksbury''' (b. ], ]) is a ] swimmer and public figure. He is best known for winning the ] in the 100 metres backstroke at the ]. He is also notable for ] as ] a few years later. '''Mark Roger Tewksbury''', {{postnominals|country=CAN|CC|MSM}} (born February 7, 1968) is a Canadian former competitive ]. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the 100-metre backstroke at the ]. He also hosted the first season of '']'', a Canadian documentary series, in 2001.


Tewksbury was awarded the ] in 1993 for being a "motivational speaker and a gifted athlete."<ref>{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Raised in ], ] Tewksbury trained at the ]. He attended the ] in ] and won a ] as part of Canada's relay team. He soon became one of the top backstrokers of all time by repeatedly breaking his own ]s. Never a strong below the water swimmer he was unmatched on the surface but as the importance of below the water swimming increased Tewksbury's ranking began to fall.


==Competitive swimming==
Going into Barcelona, Tewksbury was ranked fourth in the world and most pundits picked one of the powerful American swimmers to win gold. Tewksbury's gold medal was Canada's first at the Barcelona games and the first Canadian gold in swimming since the Communist-boycotted ]. Tewksbury also won a ] in the relay event in Barcelona. He made the cover of ] magazine. He was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, and the International Swimming Hall of Fame and was named Canada’s Male Athlete of the Year.
Raised in ],<ref name=":0" /> Tewksbury trained at the ].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.swimming.ca/en/mark-tewksbury/ |title=Mark Tewksbury |website=Swimming Canada |language=en-CA |access-date=October 16, 2019}}</ref>


He competed at the ] in Seoul, South Korea, and won a silver medal as a member of Canada's relay team.<ref name="Publishing2000">Here Publishing. ''''. Here Publishing; September 26, 2000. {{ISSN|0001-8996}}. p. 33.</ref> For some years he ranked as one of the top backstrokers in the world; never a strong below-the-water swimmer, he was unmatched on the surface, but, as the importance of below-the-water swimming increased, Tewksbury's ranking began to fall.
After the games, Tewksbury retired from swimming. He received a number of high profile endorsements deals and went to work for the ]. He did not like the work with the IOC and quit in ], accusing it of rampant corruption. Only months after the scandal surrounding the ] games broke, Tewksbury became prominent around the world as a critic of the IOC and demanded reforms to the system.


Going into Barcelona, Tewksbury was ranked fourth in the world and most pundits picked one of the powerful American swimmers to win gold. ], ], had beaten Tewksbury at the ] and ] the year before and was heavily favored to win gold. Using an underwater dolphin kick start Rouse took off to an early lead, leaving Tewksbury to play catch-up on both laps. Tewksbury would pass Rouse on the last stroke of the race, beating the American by just six one hundredths of a second—the same margin of victory Rouse had bested Tewksbury the year before at World Championships. Tewksbury would credit using visualization during his preparation to help instill self-belief and calm in the moments before the Olympic final.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.yourswimlog.com/mark-tewksbury-visualization/ |title=Mark Tewksbury: How Visualization Will Help You Achieve Your Dreams |date=October 25, 2018 |work=YourSwimLog.com |access-date=October 30, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 1998, he lost a six-figure contract as a motivational speaker because he was "too openly gay.".


Tewksbury's gold medal was Canada's first at the Barcelona games and the first Canadian gold in swimming since the Communist-boycotted 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Tewksbury also won a bronze medal in the relay event in Barcelona. He made the cover of '']'' magazine. He was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, ], and the International Swimming Hall of Fame and was named Canada's Male Athlete of the Year. After the Barcelona games, Tewksbury retired from swimming.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ishof.org/honorees/2000/00mtewksbury.html |title=Mark Tewksbury (CAN) |website=ISHOF.org |publisher=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124051702/http://ishof.org/honorees/2000/00mtewksbury.html |archive-date=2010-11-24}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/mark-tewksbury/ |title=Mark Tewksbury |date=September 19, 2011 |website=Team Canada – Official Olympic Team Website |language=en |access-date=October 16, 2019}}</ref>
In December ] Tewksbury announced to the Canadian media and people that he was gay. He was the first Canadian athlete to voluntarily state his homosexuality and his announcement drew great public attention. Tewksbury became a prominent advocate for gay rights and gay causes in Canada and the world, including strong support for the ], for which he became Vice-President.


==Post-swimming career==
Tewksbury was the narrator for the TV show '']'' during the first season. In 2006, he published his second book, an autobiography called "Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock." .
After retirement, Tewksbury received a number of high-profile endorsement deals and worked as an athlete representative with the ] (IOC), a position from which he resigned in disenchantment in 1998, accusing the IOC of rampant corruption. He was also part of the group of former Olympic athletes that was pushing for the resignation of IOC President ]. Only months after the ] broke, Tewksbury became prominent around the world as a critic of the IOC and demanded reforms to the system.


In 1993, Tewksbury and ] both gave interviews about their homosexuality to the ] series '']'' for "The Last Closet", a special episode about ] in sports;<ref>. CBC News, July 24, 2009.</ref> however, as neither was ready to fully ] at the time, both interviews were given anonymously and recorded through voice filters. In December 1998, Tewksbury officially came out as gay; he subsequently lost a six-figure contract as a motivational speaker because he was "too openly gay."<ref name=globeandmail>{{Cite news |title=Olympian Tewksbury reveals his struggles being gay |first=Dene |last=Moore |date=April 5, 2006 |url=https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/olympian-tewksbury-reveals-his-struggles-being-gay/article18159890/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com& |work=] |access-date=August 12, 2007 |location=Toronto}}</ref><ref name="Atkinson2008">Michael Atkinson. ''''. ABC-CLIO; December 30, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-313-08787-5}}. p. 213–.</ref>
Tewksbury remains a public figure working as a motivational speaker, a television commentator for swimming events, and a continued activist.


Tewksbury was also highly critical of ]'s organization in the wake of the national team's poor performance at the ] in Athens, where they failed to medal. He suggested that there was a lack of accountability within Swim Canada, and that head coach ] was given too much power.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadian-swimmers-strike-out-in-athens |first=
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Tewksbury became a prominent advocate for gay rights and gay causes in Canada and the world.<ref name="DrydenLenon2015">''''. UBC Press; September 18, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-7748-2946-5}}. p. 103–.</ref> On May 16, 2003, Tewksbury joined the board of directors for the ] in Montreal and was named co-president. He was a panelist at the 2003 National Gay and Lesbian Athletics Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a panel of ] that also included rower ] and high jumper ].<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105042653/http://www.baywindows.com/glaf-convention-brings-gay-athletes-to-boston-62213 |date=November 5, 2018 }}. '']'', March 27, 2003.</ref>

Tewksbury was the narrator for the TV show '']'' during the first season. In 2006, he published his second book, an autobiography entitled ''Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock''.<ref name=globeandmail /> Tewksbury remains a public figure working as a motivational speaker, a television commentator for swimming events, and a continued activist. He is a board member of the ].

On November 30, 2006 Tewksbury was the Master of Ceremonies for the Tribute to former Prime Minister ] at the ]'s Leadership and Biennial Convention in Montreal.

During the ], Tewksbury served as ]' swimming analyst alongside play-by play announcer ].

In December 2008 Tewksbury was invited by the government of France to speak at the United Nations in New York City on the day that a declaration was introduced that affirms gay rights and seeks to decriminalize homosexuality.

On September 19, 2009, Tewksbury was inducted into Canada's LGBT Human Rights Hall of Fame, the ], in honour of his outstanding achievements and efforts to end discrimination in the sports world.

On August 5, 2010, he was named the ] of the ].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/tewksbury-to-lead-canada-s-team-for-2012-games-1.907196 |title=Tewkesbury to lead Canada's team for 2012 Games |publisher=] |date=August 5, 2010}}</ref>

In 2015, Tewksbury was presented the Bonham Centre Award from The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, for his contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification.

On July 23, 2015, Tewksbury presented his gold medal to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg for an exhibit promoting the power of sport to influence positive change.

In 2017, Tewksbury was chosen as a Grand Marshal for the ].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://fiertemtl.com/en/festival/grand-marshals/ |title=Grand Marshals |website=Fierté Montréal |language=en-US |access-date=January 24, 2020}}</ref>

In May 2019, Tewksbury performed an autobiographical one-man show called ''Belong'', which was produced by ] and staged at the DJD Dance Centre in Calgary. The performance was a spin-off of his 2018 staged reading called ''50 & Counting'' at ] theatre in Toronto.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/theatre/mark-tewksburys-still-making-waves-with-one-man-show-belong |title=Mark Tewksbury's still making waves with one-man show Belong |publisher=Calgary Herald |date=May 9, 2019 |first=Louis B. |last=Hobson |language=en |access-date=March 6, 2020}}</ref> ''Belong'' was then restaged in January 2020 as part of ] theatre’s 34th annual High Performance Rodeo in Calgary.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6394741/olympian-tewksbury-belong-high-performance-rodeo/ |title=Olympian Mark Tewksbury hits the stage at High Performance Rodeo |website=Global News |language=en |access-date=March 6, 2020}}</ref>

In 2020, he became a Companion of the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/activities/2020/governor-general-announces-114-new-appointments-order-canada |title=Governor General Announces 114 New Appointments to the Order of Canada|date=November 26, 2020 }}</ref>

In 2022, he appeared as a panelist in '']'', advocating for ]'s novel '']''.<ref>. ], January 26, 2022.</ref>

==See also==
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==References==
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Latest revision as of 22:42, 25 November 2024

Canadian swimmer (born 1968)

Mark Tewksbury
CC MSM
Personal information
Full nameMark Tewksbury
National teamCanada
Born (1968-02-07) February 7, 1968 (age 56)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBackstroke
College teamCalgary Dinos
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Canada
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona 100 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 1988 Seoul 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Barcelona 4×100 m medley
World Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place 1991 Perth 100 m backstroke
Pan Pacific Championships
Gold medal – first place 1987 Brisbane 100 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 1987 Brisbane 200 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 1991 Edmonton 100 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 1991 Edmonton 4x100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 1989 Tokyo 100 m backstroke
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1986 Edinburgh 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 1986 Edinburgh 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 1990 Auckland 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 1990 Auckland 4×100 m medley

Mark Roger Tewksbury, CC MSM (born February 7, 1968) is a Canadian former competitive swimmer. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the 100-metre backstroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He also hosted the first season of How It's Made, a Canadian documentary series, in 2001.

Tewksbury was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (Civil Division) in 1993 for being a "motivational speaker and a gifted athlete."

Competitive swimming

Raised in Calgary, Alberta, Tewksbury trained at the University of Calgary.

He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, and won a silver medal as a member of Canada's relay team. For some years he ranked as one of the top backstrokers in the world; never a strong below-the-water swimmer, he was unmatched on the surface, but, as the importance of below-the-water swimming increased, Tewksbury's ranking began to fall.

Going into Barcelona, Tewksbury was ranked fourth in the world and most pundits picked one of the powerful American swimmers to win gold. American Jeff Rouse, world record holder in the 100m backstroke, had beaten Tewksbury at the 1991 Pan Pacific Games and 1991 World Aquatics Championships the year before and was heavily favored to win gold. Using an underwater dolphin kick start Rouse took off to an early lead, leaving Tewksbury to play catch-up on both laps. Tewksbury would pass Rouse on the last stroke of the race, beating the American by just six one hundredths of a second—the same margin of victory Rouse had bested Tewksbury the year before at World Championships. Tewksbury would credit using visualization during his preparation to help instill self-belief and calm in the moments before the Olympic final.

Tewksbury's gold medal was Canada's first at the Barcelona games and the first Canadian gold in swimming since the Communist-boycotted 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Tewksbury also won a bronze medal in the relay event in Barcelona. He made the cover of Time magazine. He was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, and the International Swimming Hall of Fame and was named Canada's Male Athlete of the Year. After the Barcelona games, Tewksbury retired from swimming.

Post-swimming career

After retirement, Tewksbury received a number of high-profile endorsement deals and worked as an athlete representative with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a position from which he resigned in disenchantment in 1998, accusing the IOC of rampant corruption. He was also part of the group of former Olympic athletes that was pushing for the resignation of IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch. Only months after the scandal surrounding the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic winter Games broke, Tewksbury became prominent around the world as a critic of the IOC and demanded reforms to the system.

In 1993, Tewksbury and Mark Leduc both gave interviews about their homosexuality to the CBC Radio series The Inside Track for "The Last Closet", a special episode about homophobia in sports; however, as neither was ready to fully come out at the time, both interviews were given anonymously and recorded through voice filters. In December 1998, Tewksbury officially came out as gay; he subsequently lost a six-figure contract as a motivational speaker because he was "too openly gay."

Tewksbury was also highly critical of Swimming Canada's organization in the wake of the national team's poor performance at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where they failed to medal. He suggested that there was a lack of accountability within Swim Canada, and that head coach Dave Johnson was given too much power.

Tewksbury and Martina Navratilova read the Declaration of Montreal at the opening ceremonies of the World Outgames.

Tewksbury became a prominent advocate for gay rights and gay causes in Canada and the world. On May 16, 2003, Tewksbury joined the board of directors for the 2006 World Outgames in Montreal and was named co-president. He was a panelist at the 2003 National Gay and Lesbian Athletics Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a panel of LGBT Olympians that also included rower Harriet Metcalf and high jumper Brian Marshall.

Tewksbury was the narrator for the TV show How It's Made during the first season. In 2006, he published his second book, an autobiography entitled Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock. Tewksbury remains a public figure working as a motivational speaker, a television commentator for swimming events, and a continued activist. He is a board member of the Gay and Lesbian Athletics Foundation.

On November 30, 2006 Tewksbury was the Master of Ceremonies for the Tribute to former Prime Minister Paul Martin at the Liberal Party of Canada's Leadership and Biennial Convention in Montreal.

During the 2008 Summer Olympics, Tewksbury served as CBC Sports' swimming analyst alongside play-by play announcer Steve Armitage.

In December 2008 Tewksbury was invited by the government of France to speak at the United Nations in New York City on the day that a declaration was introduced that affirms gay rights and seeks to decriminalize homosexuality.

On September 19, 2009, Tewksbury was inducted into Canada's LGBT Human Rights Hall of Fame, the Q Hall of Fame Canada, in honour of his outstanding achievements and efforts to end discrimination in the sports world.

On August 5, 2010, he was named the chef de mission of the 2012 Canadian Summer Olympic team.

In 2015, Tewksbury was presented the Bonham Centre Award from The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, for his contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification.

On July 23, 2015, Tewksbury presented his gold medal to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg for an exhibit promoting the power of sport to influence positive change.

In 2017, Tewksbury was chosen as a Grand Marshal for the Fierté Canada Pride Montreal.

In May 2019, Tewksbury performed an autobiographical one-man show called Belong, which was produced by Wordfest and staged at the DJD Dance Centre in Calgary. The performance was a spin-off of his 2018 staged reading called 50 & Counting at Buddies in Bad Times theatre in Toronto. Belong was then restaged in January 2020 as part of One Yellow Rabbit theatre’s 34th annual High Performance Rodeo in Calgary.

In 2020, he became a Companion of the Order of Canada.

In 2022, he appeared as a panelist in Canada Reads, advocating for Esi Edugyan's novel Washington Black.

See also

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mark Tewksbury". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on July 12, 2017.
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  3. ^ "Mark Tewksbury". Team Canada – Official Olympic Team Website. September 19, 2011. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  4. "Mark Tewksbury". Swimming Canada. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  5. Here Publishing. The Advocate. Here Publishing; September 26, 2000. ISSN 0001-8996. p. 33.
  6. "Mark Tewksbury: How Visualization Will Help You Achieve Your Dreams". YourSwimLog.com. October 25, 2018. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
  7. "Mark Tewksbury (CAN)". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on November 24, 2010.
  8. "Leduc remembered as Olympic champ, gay role model". CBC News, July 24, 2009.
  9. ^ Moore, Dene (April 5, 2006). "Olympian Tewksbury reveals his struggles being gay". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved August 12, 2007.
  10. Michael Atkinson. Battleground: Sports [2 volumes]: Sports. ABC-CLIO; December 30, 2008. ISBN 978-0-313-08787-5. p. 213–.
  11. Gatehouse, Jonathon (May 29, 2014). "Canadian Swimmers Strike Out in Athens". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Archived from the original on September 3, 2008. from Maclean's
  12. CANOE – SLAM! 2004 Games Swimming : Rock bottom
  13. Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging. UBC Press; September 18, 2015. ISBN 978-0-7748-2946-5. p. 103–.
  14. "GLAF convention brings gay athletes to Boston" Archived November 5, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. Bay Windows, March 27, 2003.
  15. "Tewkesbury to lead Canada's team for 2012 Games". CBC.ca. August 5, 2010.
  16. "Grand Marshals". Fierté Montréal. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  17. Hobson, Louis B. (May 9, 2019). "Mark Tewksbury's still making waves with one-man show Belong". Calgary Herald. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
  18. "Olympian Mark Tewksbury hits the stage at High Performance Rodeo". Global News. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
  19. "Governor General Announces 114 New Appointments to the Order of Canada". November 26, 2020.
  20. "Meet the Canada Reads 2022 contenders". CBC Books, January 26, 2022.

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Olympic champions in men's 100 m backstroke
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