Stephen K. Lundquist (born February 20, 1961) is an American former swimmer who was an Olympic gold medalist. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, he won gold medals in the 100-meter breaststroke and the 400-meter medley relay.

Lundquist was the first swimmer to break two minutes in the 200-yard breaststroke. He won every 100-yard breaststroke event he entered from 1980 to 1983.[citation needed] At 17 he broke his first world record and in his career he broke world and American records on 15 occasions. He first broke the 100-meter breaststroke world record in 1982 and held it until 1989 with the exception of one month when John Moffett held it. He also held the world record in the 200-meterindividual medley in 1978. He set American records in the 100-meter and 200-meterbreaststroke and the 200-meer individual medley.

Coached by Arthur Winters, Steve from a butterfly swimmer when he was 12 years old to the breaststroke which is the stroke he came to dominate. Coach Art was at the end of the pool when he broke his first world record at 17 years of age. Coach Art told him lots of things that helped him swim faster including how to win the Olympic 100-meter breaststroke.

Lundquist went on after the 1984 Olympics to spend much of his time volunteering his time for charitable organizations and making appearances on television and in movies. In June 1985, People Magazineawarded him having the Best Chest of male celebrities, including a full-page picture of his muscular torso. In 1996 when the Olympics were hosted in Atlanta, Georgia he was an Olympic Torch Bearer, the Clayton County Master of Ceremonies for the torch run, and he was also given the honor of being the Olympic Flag Bearer at the 1996 Olympic Games. He currently runs his own business, Digipik, a digital media company in the Stockbridge, Georgia area.

Achievements 
U.S. Honorary Olympic Team medalist, swimming, 1980
United States Swimmer of the Year, 1982
Olympia Award, 1983
U.S. Olympic Team double gold medalist, swimming, 1984
International Swimming Hall of Fame, inducted in 1990
Georgia Sports Hall of Fame's youngest inductee, 1990
Olympic flagbearer, torch-runner, emcee, 1996
Voted America's Top Breast-Stroker of the Century By US Swimming
Georgia State Games Cauldron Lighter, 1997
3rd place, Super Dogs Super Jocks, 1998

Education 
Attended Woodward Academy, College Park, Georgia
Graduated from Jonesboro High School, Georgia 1979
Graduated (BBA) from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 1984
Graduated (MBA) from Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Executive Master's Program) 1994
Graduate of Beverly Hills Playhouse School of Acting, and studied under Milton Katselas and Jeff Goldblum
Studied voice under Ron Anderson
Appearances on America's major national talk shows 

Johnny Carson
Larry King Live
Joan Rivers
Good Morning America
This Morning
The Today Show
CNN Sports Talk
Radio Talk Show Host during 1996 Summer Olympics
Commentator for the Goodwill Games in Moscow
Acting credits
Regular on Search For Tomorrow TV Soap

Loveboat
ABC TV's Actors to Watch Talent and Development Program
Earth Girls are Easy
Return of the Killer Tomatoes
Beach Boys MTV video "It's Getting Late"
Splash videos
After School TV special nominated for an Emmy entitled "Testing Positive"