Klete Keller

Klete Keller

Personal information
Full name	Klete D. Keller
National team	United States
Born	(1982-03-21) March 21, 1982 (age 42) Las Vegas, Nevada
Height	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Weight	214 lb (97 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Trojans Swim Club
College team	University of Southern California
Medal record Men's swimming Representing the United States Olympic Games 2004 Athens 4×200 m freestyle 2008 Beijing 4×200 m freestyle 2000 Sydney 4×200 m freestyle 2000 Sydney 400 m freestyle 2004 Athens 400 m freestyle World Championships (LC) 2005 Montreal 4×200 m freestyle 2007 Melbourne 4×200 m freestyle 2003 Barcelona 4×200 m freestyle 2001 Fukuoka 200 m freestyle 2001 Fukuoka 4×200 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2002 Moscow 200 m freestyle 2002 Moscow 4×100 m freestyle 2002 Moscow 4×200 m freestyle Pan Pacific Championships 2006 Victoria 200 m freestyle 2006 Victoria 4×200 m freestyle 2002 Yokohama 4×200 m freestyle 2002 Yokohama 400 m freestyle 2006 Victoria 400 m freestyle

Klete D. Keller (born March 21, 1982) is an American former competition swimmer who won medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 400-meter freestyle and the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. In the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, Keller held off a charging Ian Thorpe in the anchor leg to win the race by 0.13 seconds. This was the first time Australia had been beaten in the event in over seven years. The American relay of Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Peter Vanderkaay, and Keller are undefeated since the Athens games. Vanderkaay, Larsen Jensen, Erik Vendt, and Keller make up the core of the premier American mid-distance/distance freestyle swimmers.

Klete was one of many 2000 Olympic medalists from The Race Club World Team, a summer swimming camp in Florida.^[1]

Keller attended the University of Southern California for two years from 2000 to 2001, but left school to focus on swimming.[1] While at USC, Keller won multiple individual and relay Pac-10 and NCAA Championships in the 200, 500 and 1,650-yard freestyle, as well as freestyle relays.

Keller has also won many U.S. national titles and FINA world championship medals, primarily in 200 and 400-meter freestyles and the 4×200-meter free relay.

From 2004 to 2007, Keller trained at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor under Bob Bowman and former head coach Jon Urbanchek. He has left Ann Arbor and returned to USC to finish school and train under coach Dave Salo.

• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
• List of University of Southern California people
• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
• World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay

• Klete Keller at Team USA (archived)