Steven "Steve" Furniss is a former American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Olympic swimmer

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 from Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

. He won the bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich

Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics

The 1972 Summer Olympics were held in Munich, West Germany, 29 events in swimming were contested. There was a total of 532 participants from 52 countries competing....

 in the men's 200-meter individual medley. He attended Foothill High School in Santa Ana, California. His brother Bruce Furniss

Bruce Furniss

Bruce MacFarlane Furniss is an American swimmer. He won two gold medals in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal in the Men's 200 metre freestyle and the Men's 4x200 metre Freestyle Relay, both in world record time....

 also competed as an Olympic swimmer.

As of 2009, Steve is now the Executive Vice President of the swimsuit company TYR.