title: Nelson Diebel
text: Nelson W. Diebel (born November 9, 1970) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
  
  Diebel won two gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.  First, he won the men's 100-meter breaststroke, setting a new Olympic record of 1:01.50 in the event final.  Afterward, he swam the breaststroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay, together with fellow Americans Jeff Rouse (backstroke), Pablo Morales (butterfly) and Jon Olsen (freestyle).  In the event final, the four Americans matched the world record of 3:36.93 set by the U.S. team at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
  
  Diebel attended the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey.  He enrolled in Princeton University, where he swam for the Princeton Tigers swim team under coach C. Rob Orr.
  
  See also
   List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games
   List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
   List of Princeton University Olympians
   List of Princeton University people
   World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
  
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  1970 births
  Living people
  American male breaststroke swimmers
  American swimming coaches
  World record setters in swimming
  Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
  Peddie School alumni
  Princeton Tigers men's swimmers
  Swimmers from Chicago
  Swimmers at the 1991 Pan American Games
  Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
  Pan American Games medalists in swimming
  Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games