Melvin Monroe Stewart is an American former competition swimmer and former world record-holder who won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Stewart was a prominent 200-meter butterfly swimmer of his era. A 14-time national champion, he won the 200-meter event at the 1991 World Championships in Perth, defeating Hall of Famers Michael Gross of Germany and Tam�s Darnyi of Hungary. Next year he became the gold medalist at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in Olympic record time, 1:56.26. Stewart, the world-record holder since 1991, won a second gold as a preliminary heat member of the 4�100m medley relay and a bronze on the 4�200m freestyle relay. In his first Olympic Games at Seoul in 1988, he was placed fifth in the 200m butterfly. Stewart held the world record at 1:55.69 from 1991 to 1995 when it was broken by Denis Pankratov of Russia. Beginning in 1974, under the direction of coach Frankie Bell at the Johnston Memorial YMCA pool in Charlotte, North Carolina, he won several national YMCA titles. 

November 16th, 1968 in Gastonia (Age 56) as Melvin Monroe Stewart, Jr.