Tom Shields

Tom Shields
Shields in 2017
Personal information
Full nameThomas Allen Shields
Nickname(s)
"Tom", "US rocket", "BeefyT"
National team United States
Born (1991-07-11) July 11, 1991
Panama City, Florida, U.S.
Height6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Weight200 lb (91 kg)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesButterfly, freestyle, backstroke
ClubCalifornia Aquatics
College teamU. California, Berkeley
CoachDave Durden (Berkeley)
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  United States
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m medley
2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley
World Championships (LC)
2015 Kazan 4×100 m medley
World Championships (SC)
2012 Istanbul 4×100 m medley
2016 Windsor 4×50 m medley mixed
2021 Abu Dhabi 4×50 m medley
2012 Istanbul 100 m butterfly
2014 Doha 4×50 m freestyle
2014 Doha 100 m butterfly
2014 Doha 4×100 m medley
2016 Windsor 50 m butterfly
2016 Windsor 100 m butterfly
2016 Windsor 200 m butterfly
2016 Windsor 4×50 m freestyle
2016 Windsor 4×50 m medley
2012 Istanbul 50 m butterfly
2014 Doha 4×100 m freestyle
2014 Doha 4×50 m medley
2016 Windsor 4×100 m freestyle
2021 Abu Dhabi 4×100 m freestyle
Pan American Games
2019 Lima 100 m butterfly
2019 Lima 4×100 m medley
Summer Universiade
2011 Shenzhen 4×200 m freestyle
2011 Shenzhen 100 m butterfly
2011 Shenzhen 4×100 m medley

Thomas Allen Shields (born July 11, 1991) is an American competitive swimmer. He is a two-time Olympian and the current American record-holder in the short course 50-meter butterfly and 200-meter butterfly. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay, swimming the butterfly leg of the relay in the prelims. Later the same year, he became the first American to swim faster than 44 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly, setting a new American record of 43.84 seconds.

For the 2020 Summer Olympics, he swam the butterfly leg of the 4×100-meter medley relay in the prelims, winning a gold medal when the finals relay finished first. At the Kazan stop of the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup, Shields was the only swimmer representing the United States to compete, winning two gold medals and one silver medal in individual events. For the whole 2021 World Cup, Shields was the highest scoring American competitor and second-highest scoring male competitor.

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