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Anthony Lee Ervin (born May 26, 1981) is an American competition swimmer who has won two 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 U.S. relay team in the 4×100-meter freestyle event. He is the first swimmer of African American descent to medal in Olympic swimming.〔http://www.ishof.org/black_history/trailblazers.htm〕 Ervin stopped swimming competitively at the age of 22 in 2003, auctioned off his 2000 Olympic gold medal on eBay to aid survivors of the 2004 tsunami, but he began to train again in 2011.〔 Ervin competed in the 50-meter freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics where he placed fifth. ==Personal life== Ervin is Jewish,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Jewish Week – Connecting the World to Jewish News, Culture, and Opinion )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jewish Olympian Anthony Ervin Gets Closer to 2nd Gold in 50M Freestyle )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jews and the Olympic Games )〕 and was born in Hollywood. He is of European descent on his mother's side, and of African-American and Native American descent on his father's. He was raised in Valencia, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interfaith Celebrities: Olympic Update )〕〔 Ervin has described himself as a "practicing Zen Buddhist".〔http://www.bobschaller.com/SplashIrv.pdf〕 While living in Santa Clarita, he swam for Canyons Aquatic Club, and also competed on the Hart High School's swim team in Newhall, California. Anthony enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his bachelor's degree in English in 2010. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree in sport, culture and education at the University of California.〔 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「Anthony Ervin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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