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}} Adrian David Moorhouse MBE (born 24 May 1964) is an English former competitive swimmer who dominated British swimming in the late 1980s. He won the gold medal in the 100-metre breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Since then Moorhouse, a former pupil of Bradford Grammar School, has translated his sporting success to a successful career in the business world, as managing director of Lane4,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lane4 )〕 a consultancy helping individuals and teams around the world reach their fullest potential. He was voted Best Leader at the Sunday Times Best Small Companies to Work for in 2009 and 2007 and has been listed in HR Magazine's Most Influential UK Thinkers since 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Awards – Lane4 )〕 He is also a swimming commentator for BBC television.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Media Centre – BBC 2012 TV commentators and pundits )〕 ==Early career== Moorhouse was born in Bradford, attended Bradford Grammar School and went to 4th Shipley Scouts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Shipley & Baildon Scout District 1908 – 1995 )〕 Moorhouse's inspiration to become seriously involved in national and international competitive swimming came at the age of 12 when he watched David Wilkie win gold at the Montreal Olympics. In 1980 he was selected for the England Junior team and broke the national junior records for both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke. When he was 15, he was chosen for the national senior squad, number two to the gold medallist at the Moscow Olympics, Duncan Goodhew. Moorhouse became Britain's number one breaststroke swimmer in 1981 when he won a bronze medal for the 200 m in the European Championships in Yugoslavia. The following year he gained his first taste of gold after winning the 100 m breaststroke at the Commonwealth Games in Australia. At the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, Moorhouse was tipped for a gold medal in the 100 m breaststroke but missed out completely, coming fourth. "I was devastated", he says. "After the Games I convinced myself that I had no talent and that I was never going to win again. I didn't want anything to do with swimming.” He celebrated his comeback in April 1985 when he broke the World Short Course (25 m pool) record for the 100 m,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=City of Leeds Swimming Club: Swimmer Profiles (Former Internationals) – Adrian Moorhouse )〕 and went on to win the European Championships gold medal in Bulgaria. In 1986, Moorhouse suffered another setback, finishing first in the World Championships in Madrid but being disqualified for an illegal turn. In 1987, putting the Madrid episode behind him, Moorhouse set a world short-course record by becoming the first person to swim 100 m breaststroke in less than a minute,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stroke of Genius: ''At the Match'' interview )〕 out-swimming the former world record holder, Rolf Beab, at the Europeans in Bonn, in a time of 59.75 s. Moorhouse started Olympic year, 1988, on the right note by winning the 100 m breaststroke at the US Indoor Championships to confirm his status as number one in the world. In September he achieved a lifetime's ambition at Seoul when, following in the footsteps of David Wilkie and Duncan Goodhew, he won Olympic gold in the 100 m breaststroke. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adrian Moorhouse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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