Book description
Mark Tewksbury is best known as a gold-medal-winning Olympic swimmer.
His remarkable sixteen-year athletic career included three Olympic
medals, numerous world records, and inductions into three major halls of
fame: the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall of
Fame, and the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Although retired as an athlete, Tewksbury remains a highly respected
public figure. He delivered prized swimming analysis for the CBC from
the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, hosts the Discovery Channel's popular
How It's Made show, and is Co-President of the first World Outgames,
Montreal 2006.
Tewksbury has spoken to millions as part of his eighteen-year
speaking career and remains much in demand as an inspirational speaker
to companies and organizations around the world. For his active
humanitarianism, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the
University of Western Ontario in 2001, and in 2005 Tewksbury was
awarded the International Person of the Year Award at S?o Paulo Pride
in Brazil. He currently lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
For more on Mark Tewksbury, please visit www. MarkTewksbury. com
"To reach the pinnacle of Olympic Swimming takes incredible
dedication, resilience and courage that few possess. To reach your
true self takes these attributes and a great deal more courage so,
therefore, even fewer arrive at this point in their lives. Mark
Tewksbury is one of these courageous people who achieve so much and
through pain, suffering, daring, and pure fight, become who they truly
are, inside and out."
--Duncan Armstrong O. A.M., Australian
Olympic Swimming Legend
Mark Tewksbury (Montreal, PQ) won a gold medal in
swimming in the 1992 Barcelona Olymics. He's been inducted into the
Canadian Hall of Fame and has appeared on the cover of Time.
