Hall had won 10 Olympic medals between 1996-2004 as an American swimmer, including five golds. He was inducted to the Arizona Sports and Entertainment Commission Hall of Fame in 2018.

Story by Jeremy Cluff, Arizona Republic • 17m G ary Hall Jr., a 10-time Olympic champion, lost his Olympic medals earlier this year in the wildfires that raged throughout Southern California.

American swimmer Gary Hall Jr. holds an original medal from Atlanta 1996 that melted during the wildfires in Los Angeles that destroyed his home, while holding a replica medal presented to him in ...

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Others in the six-member class are former Diamondbacks first baseman Mark Grace, 10-time Olympic swimming medalist Gary Hall Jr., University of Arizona softball coach Mike Candrea and former ...

Gary Hall Jr.'s harrowing experience escaping the Los Angeles wildfires in January, and seeing his home engulfed in flames, was not the first time he was in a life-threatening situation.

Gary Hall Jr. was inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame in 2018 and won back-to-back gold medals in the men’s 50-meter freestyle in Sydney in 2000 and in 2004 at the Olympics in Athens.

Gary Hall Jr. during his Olympic win in the men’s 50 m freestyle at the Athens Games in 2004. AFP via Getty Images For his final Olympic outing in Athens in 2004, Hall won gold in the 50 m ...

The Palisades fire had former gold medal U.S. Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr. feeling as if he were in a horror movie as he lost everything everything he owns, including his home and 10 Olympics medals.

Gary Hall Jr.'s harrowing experience escaping the Los Angeles wildfires in January, and seeing his home engulfed in flames, was not the first time he was in a life-threatening situation.

Gary Hall Jr. received 10 replica medals from IOC President Thomas Bach during an 'emotional; ceremony at Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland. ... Hall, who grew up in Arizona, ...