Bruce and Steve Furniss were brothers and Olympic swimmers who held several world records. They pushed each other to improve through friendly competition. Bruce broke Steve's world record in the 200m IM in 1975. Both brothers won medals at the 1976 Olympics but were disappointed they didn't get to race each other head-to-head after their signature event was removed from that year's Games. They credit each other for their swimming success and the support of their family.

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Bruce Furniss
Bruce Furniss, father of four
great kids, Villa Park resident,
two time Olympic Gold medalist
“My mother was insecure around water because she didn’t know you tear through the gifts you’ve looked forward to getting
and numerous world records… how to swim,” he said. She was determined that her sons – Chip, for months, and then that moment is gone for another whole
and...Villa Park resident. Steven, Bruce and Craig learn to swim. Little did she know they year. For me the pursuit of the goal is what I found intoxicat-
would excel in swimming. Bruce and Steve each broke several ing. Unfortunately, touching the wall meant that this incredible
Olympic Gold medalist Bruce Furniss has World Records. In fact, Bruce broke Steve’s World Record in the journey was over.”
set World Records, met U.S. Presidents 200-meter individual medley, in a race in which Steve competed. continued...
Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Steve earned a bronze medal in the 1972 Games, and as brothers,
Regan, but insists the highlight of his they both competed in the 1976 Games.
17-year swimming career has more to do
Bruce credits older brother Steve with giving him guidance
with his character development than his
and advice along the way. The two brothers would race head-
prowess in the pool.
to-head a total of seven times over a three year period, but they
Besides winning two gold medals at the were robbed of their ultimate dream of competing against each
1976 Olympics, Furniss, 54, broke ten other in the Olympic Games in their specialty, the 200-meter
world records, 19 American records, 11 individual medley. For political reasons, the International
AAU and six NCAA records. Named Olympic Committee dropped this event from the 1976 Olym-
World Swimmer of the Year in 1975 & 1976, he has been pic program, only to reinstate it four years later. Unfortunately
inducted into the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame, the Furniss had swum a World Record-breaking time in his spe- for Bruce, he was the World Record holder of the 200-meter
International Swimming Hall of Fame and the University of cialty, the 200 meter individual medley, when during the race individual medley going into the Montreal Olympics.
Southern California Sports Hall of Fame. He, Mark Spitz and only his feet touched the wall, not his hand, between the back
Furniss recalls during the months leading up to the 1976 U.S.
Michael Phelps are the only American swimmers to have won and breast stroke legs, as the rules require.
Olympic Trials, his nightly ritual of standing on a chair at the
Olympic Gold Medals in the 200 meter and 4 x 200 meter free-
Upon finishing the race, the deck official whom he had known end of his parents’ bed, a prop for a starting block, and diving
style relay, setting world records in each event.
since his days as an age grouper, approached him, and instead of into their bed all the while commentating and visualizing his
“You have only one reputation,” he said, still proud of his hon- just outright disqualifying him, asked, “Did you touch the wall Olympic Final race...always winning. He admits fantasizing
esty as a 23-year-old in an incident that is forever etched in his between back and breaststroke?” about always “out-touching his competitors” and never losing
mind. “It took integrity and fortitude. After all, the purpose of any of these fictitious races.
sport is to compete within the rules.” “Every fibre of my being wanted to say I had touched that wall,”
he remembers. “I did not,” he replied, his goggles filling with “The Olympics is not just a sports event,” he says. “It is a world
It was at the 1980 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Irvine tears. “I left the pool devastated. I was disqualified and that is happening...a cultural mélange celebrating excellence.”
during the last heat of the preliminary swims in which the how my career ended.”
He is often asked what it is like to win Olympic gold.
defining moment occurred. It would be the very last race of his
illustrious career. Furniss’ swimming career started when he was just five years old.
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“I found myself thinking of my seventh grade teacher,” he Furniss still enjoys the sport of swimming and assists programs
reveals. “He wore a stars and stripes tie to school every day and in Southern California, serving on the board of USC’s Physi-
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Furniss Brothers
By Sharon Robb
Brothers Bruce and Steve Furniss were swimming against each other in the 200m IM
during the 1975 U.S. Swimming Nationals when Bruce broke his older brother's world
record in front of an emotionally charged, packed house in Kansas City.
A local reporter asked Steve Furniss how he felt about his own brother beating him
and taking away his world record.
Steve Furniss looked up and smiled, "At least it stays in the family," he said. "Who
would you rather have beat you and take your record? It might as well be your
brother."
At the same U.S. Nationals, Bruce and Steve teamed with Tim Shaw and Rex Favero,
all members of the Dick Jochums-coached Long Beach Swim Club, to break the world
record in the 800m freestyle relay (7:30.54). It was the last club team to set a world
record. Since then, all relay world records have been set by national or Olympic
teams.
There was the time Bruce and Steve were racing against each other at the 1975
World Championships in Cali, Colombia. They were in Lanes 1 and 2. Steve out-
touched his younger brother by 1/100th of a second. After the race, Steve leaned
over the lane lines, nodded to his brother and asked, "Did you throw the race?"
"I didn't talk to him for an hour after that race, I was so (angry) he would even infer
that," Bruce Furniss now says laughing about it.
At Santa Clara, the two were competing in a large pre-season meet, again side-by-
side. They were stroke for stroke on the final turn. It didn't matter that they were in
fifth and sixth place at the time.
"For us it didn't matter, we were raised to race," Steve Furniss said. "We always liked
to race each other. It was a sibling rivalry but in a positive sense. We have always
had a great love and affection for one another. Plus, I was doing a fair amount of
mentoring him. Because it was family, we always left it at the pool. It never
manifested itself at home. But in the pool, that was different. It didn't matter that
four other guys finished ahead of us on that particular day. All that mattered was the
battle between Bruce and me. "
And battles they were. Brotherly love, swim-style. Both former world-class swimmers
credit the other for bringing out the best in each other in races, training and getting
to the Olympics.
"I would not be the swimmer I was if it wasn't for my brother," Bruce Furniss said.
"He was very instrumental in my success."
Bruce Furniss, who turns 45 on May 27, was inducted into the International
Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale in 1987. One of the most versatile
swimmers of his era, he won two gold medals at the 1976 Olympics in the 200m free
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and the 800m free relay, both in world record times.
During his career he won nine AAU titles and six NCAA championships and claimed 19
American records, including 10 in yard distances that were the world's fastest times.
In 1975, he emerged as a top American swimmer after placing second in the 200m
and 400m freestyle at World Championships. Later that year, he set his first world
record after posting a new best time twice in one day in the 200 free. In August of
the same year, he went on to deprive his brother of the 200 IM world record.
Steve Furniss, five years older, was the 1976 Olympic bronze medalist in the 200 IM.
He specialized in the IM, winning the 200 and 400 at both the 1971 and 1975 Pan
American Games. In 1974, he tied Great Britain's David Wilkie's 200 IM world record
before his brother Bruce took it in 1975. In addition to being a medalist at the 1972
Olympics, he also swam the 400 IM in 1972 and 1976, reaching the finals on both
occasions.
The former world record-holder in the 200 IM – the second fastest of all time in the
200 IM in 1976 – was denied what could have been his greatest moment in
swimming when the event was removed from the Montreal Olympic Games schedule.
It was believed that Steve, Bruce and Wilkie would have been the overwhelming
favorites, since they were the only swimmers to go under 2:07 at the time.
It was the only year the event was taken out of the Games schedule. It was
reinstated in the 1980 Olympics, which was boycotted by the U.S.
Steve, co-captain of the 1976 Olympic swim team, was always disappointed that he
was never given the opportunity to swim his best event in 1976. Only the 400 IM was
held. Though the Olympic gold medal eluded him, he was the most dominant
individual medley swimmer of his era (1972-1976).
To this day, few people realize that Bruce and Steve Furniss are the only known
brothers ever in the modern era to have held and broken one another's world records
consecutively. It's one of their greatest disappointments not to have had the
opportunity to face each other as brothers in the 1976 Olympic Games.
Both credit swimming for shaping their lives. They also praise their parents, William
and Patricia Furniss, for getting them involved in the sport along with their other two
brothers, and having the wherewithal to wake up at the crack of dawn to get them to
morning workouts, help time meets and provide a helping hand at every turn of their
swimming careers throughout high school, college and club swimming.
Moments after touching the wall in the 200 free, Bruce Furniss blew a kiss to his
mother, celebrating a lifelong goal – the Olympic gold medal. His time of 1:50.29 was
a World, American and Olympic record. Patricia Furniss died of Parkinson's disease a
few years ago. William still lives in Southern California and gets together with his
sons frequently. The conversation always manages to center around some old swim
story.
"Swimming had a lot to do with my adult life," Bruce Furniss said. "Swimming is a
common thread that still has an impact in my life. Had I not been a swimmer, I would
not have been on the U.S. team, gone to the Olympics or met my wife. The sport had
such character-shaping moments for me.”
Olympic great John Naber invited Bruce to a 1988 Olympic team sendoff gala at
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Disneyland where he met his future wife Sharon, director of marketing at Disneyland.
They have been married 13 years.
"The things I miss the most? Well, I miss being really good at something and
competing at the most elite level of the sport," Bruce Furniss said. "I loved the raw,
unabashed innocence of the moments of my life in swimming. They were very private
and extraordinarily important to me. Now, I live vicariously through the younger
athletes."
His most defining moment was not winning Olympic gold or breaking a world record.
It was more personal, a moment that shaped his being as an adult. It was the final
race of his career at Nationals in 1980 at Irvine, Calif., a week after the Moscow
Olympics. After failing to make finals in the 200 freestyle, he stood up on the blocks
one final time in his last event of the meet, the 200 IM. His parents were sitting at
the finish line. Furniss was in second place, a full body length behind Bill Barrett of
UCLA, when the turn judge raised his hand, signaling an infraction in Furniss' lane. He
failed to touch the wall on his breaststroke turn.
It would have been very easy for swim officials Pat Graham and Keith Hanson to look
the other way, Furniss said. After all, it was his last race. He was president of the
Athletes' Advisory Council for swimming and would have qualified third or fourth for
the championship final. Instead, Furniss said the two officials "were doing rock,
paper, scissor to see which one of them was going to tell me I was disqualified. They
were devastated one of them had to come over."
It was Graham, who knew Furniss since he was a 6-year-old age grouper, who had to
break the news to Furniss. Graham came over, knelt beside Furniss and asked
whether he touched the wall.
"I don't know where it came from or where I found the strength but I told him I knew
I didn't touch the wall and agreed with his call," Furniss said. "I told him 'No, I did not
touch the wall.' It was one of my proudest moments of anything I ever did. The most
important thing I did was not lie. If I had lied, I would have had to live with that the
rest of my life. It was such a simple moment in a race. But something I have never
forgotten. I ended my career on a disqualification."
After all these years, Bruce and Steve Furniss are still competitive, only now it's out
of the pool. Steve Furniss won the latest bet, on the Oscar winners.
"We have our fun still,” Steve said. We always have to win in something. We can't do
it in body, so we think of other ways to beat each other. We had a lot of head-to-
head races, and they were all enjoyable. But that's not what I miss the most. I think
it's more the camaraderie and the friends we met along the way. We can bump into
someone we swam with and haven't seen in 15 years and talk about the old days like
it was yesterday.
"It's funny. The stuff I used to hate back then is the stuff I miss the most. Piling into
the car with my three other brothers and going to morning workouts… testing your
mind against your body in two-hour workouts and pushing my body to its physical
limits."
Bruce Furniss, married with four children including a set of twins, lives in Southern
California. He is senior vice president with Grubb and Ellis in Anaheim. Nowadays, he
plays more golf than he swims. His commercial real estate selling area concentrates
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on the Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino and Riverside regions.
Steve Furniss and his wife have two children and live 20 minutes away from Bruce
and Sharon in Huntington Beach, Calif. Steve founded TYR Sport, Inc. in 1985. He
was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1994 by Inc., Magazine.
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Bruce Furniss Named 2004 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award Recipient
Former USC swimming great is the ninth Trojan to win prestigious honor.
Nov. 20, 2003
Bruce Furniss, one of the most prolific swimmers in USC history, has been named one of six
recipients of a 2004 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award.
The Award recognizes former student-athletes who have distinguished themselves since Bruce Furniss has been
completing their college athletics careers 25 years ago. The recipients will be honored on Jan.
11 at the Honors Dinner during the annual NCAA Convention in Nashville, Tenn. named a 2004 NCAA
Silver Anniversary
The other 2004 honorees are Trish Millines Dziko (basketball, volleyball, softball at Monmouth), Award winner.
Virginia Anne (Ginny) Gilder (rowing at Yale), Stacey Johnson (fencing at San Jose State),
Gregory Kelser (basketball at Michigan State) and Kelleen Winslow (football at Missouri).
Furniss is the ninth Trojan to receive this prestigious award, joining John Ferraro (1973), Al Geiberger (1984), Mike Garrett
(1991), Stan Smith (1993), Lynn Swann (1999), Pat Haden (2000), John Naber (2002) and Debbie Landreth Brown (2003).
Furniss helped the Trojans secure two NCAA swimming team championships in 1976 and 1977 and four Pac-10 titles from
1976 to 1979. The 18-time all-American also captured six national crowns in the 200-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle relay
and the 400-yard freestyle relay.
Furniss, who competed despite battling a severely crippling arthritic disease, also dominated on the international scene as a
four-time world-record holder in the 200-meter freestyle and in the 800-meter freestyle relay. A 19-time American record
holder, Furniss collected gold medals at the 1975 and 1978 World Championships. In addition, he was a two-time gold
medalist at the 1976 Olympic Games (in the 200-meter freestyle and swimming a leg on the United States' 800 freestyle
relay, both in world record time).
Named to the United States Swimming Team of the Century in 2000, the 1987 International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee
and 2001 USC Athletic Hall of Fame inductee has been a senior investment advisor with Hendricks & Partners since 2002 and
formerly was a senior vice-president with Grubb & Ellis from 1998 to 2002. A member of United States Swimming's board of
directors from 1981 to 1987, Furniss was an Olympic Torchbearer in 1984 and 1996. In addition, he has been on the board of
directors for the Los Angeles and Orange County chapter of the Arthritis Foundation and has served as campaign chair for the
organization's annual telethon.
Furniss helped to establish "Swim with Mike," an annual charity swim event originally designed to raise money for Mike
Nyeholt, a swimmer at USC who was injured. The program has raised more than $4 million, which has translated into more
than 45 full scholarships for physically challenged athletes to attend college.
Furniss also has been a volunteer with the Orange County YMCA and serves as a professional career mentor to current
student-athletes at USC.
He has 3 Trojan aquatic siblings: older brothers, Steve, an Olympic bronze medalist who won 4 NCAA individual medley titles,
and Chip, a 3-time All-American swimmer, and younger brother, Craig, a 2-time All-American on the water polo team (and
USC's co-valedictorian).
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13. News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sharon Abar
714.939.6034
FURNISS OF GRUBB & ELLIS’ ANAHEIM OFFICE
NAMED TO USA SWIMMING TEAM OF THE CENTURY
ORANGE, Calif., April 13, 2000 --- Bruce Furniss, senior vice president and investment specialist with
the Anaheim office of Grubb & Ellis Company, has been named to the USA Swimming Team of the
Century recently announced by United States Swimming’s Splash magazine.
Furniss, who attended college at USC, was selected to represent the United States in the 800
meter freestyle relay prelims team along with Rowdy Gaines, Johnny Weismuller and Don Schollander.
He was also chosen for the 800 meter freestyle relay finals team along with Mark Spitz, Don Schollander
and Matt Biondi.
In the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Furniss took home a pair of gold medals,
winning the 200 meter freestyle and the 800 meter freestyle relay. Additionally, he was twice World
Champion in 1975 and 1978 and garnered two silver medals as well in the 200 meter and 400 meter
freestyles in the 1975 World Championships. Furniss set ten world records during his career and held the
world record mark in the 200 meter freestyle for four years. Furniss, along with his brother Steve, also
holds the unique distinction for being the only brothers ever in the modern era to break one another’s
world records consecutively in the same event. Furniss broke his older brother’s world mark in the 200
IM in 1975.
A panel of 24 swimming experts chose the 52-member USA Swimming Team of the Century.
The panel included historians, swimming writers, Olympic coaches and swimmers. Their selections came
from among the swimmers who have won more than 400 Olympic medals for the United States over the
past 100 years.
Two individuals were chosen per event with the exception of the 100 meter and 200 meter

15. News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sharon Abar
714.939.6034
FURNISS OF GRUBB & ELLIS NAMED TO
USC ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME FOR 2001
ORANGE, Calif., January 11, 2001 --- Bruce Furniss, senior vice president and multifamily specialist
with the Anaheim office of Grubb & Ellis Company, is one of 20 Trojan luminaries selected for induction
into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.
Furniss will be part of the fifth group of athletes to be inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of
Fame.
“This is an outstanding group of Trojans greats who have played an important role in USC’s
athletic history,” said USC Athletic Director Mike Garrett, who was a member of the 1994 charter class.
“They’ll join our first four classes of Hall of Famers to form a real Who’s Who in USC sports.”
Furniss took home a pair of gold medals in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, winning the 200
meter freestyle and the 800 meter freestyle relay. Additionally, he was twice World Champion in 1975
and 1978 and garnered two silver medals as well in the 200 meter and 400 meter freestyles in the 1975
World Championships. He also won four NCAA titles.
Furniss set ten world records during his career and held the world record mark in the 200 meter
freestyle for four years. Furniss, along with his brother Steve, hold the unique distinction of being the
only brothers ever in the modern era to break one another's world records consecutively in the same
event. Furniss broke his older brother's world mark in the 200 IM in 1975. He is a life member of U.S.
Swimming and an inductee into both the International Swimming and Orange County Sports Halls of
Fame. He is a resident of Anaheim Hills.
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2001, add one
The Hall of Famers are selected by a 75-member panel consisting of media and USC alumni and
athletic department supporters. To be eligible for election, athletes must have completed their last season
of eligibility at USC 10 years ago.
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17. freestyle, where six were picked -- the same procedure used to select the team for the 2000 Olympic
Games. One twist to the selection process was adding additional swimmers to the roster to reach a
maximum of 52 -- the same maximum number for the 2000 Olympic Games
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FURNISS OF GRUBB & ELLIS’ ANAHEIM OFFICE NAMED TO USA SWIMMING TEAM OF
THE CENTURY, add one
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Through its offices, affiliates and global strategic alliance with Knight Frank, one of the leading property
consulting firms in Europe and Asia, the company provides a full range of real estate services, including
advisory, management and consultative services, to users and investors worldwide. With the collective
resources of nearly 7,000 people in 200 offices in 27 countries, Grubb & Ellis professionals arrange the
sale or lease of such business properties as industrial, retail and office buildings, as well as the acquisition
and disposition of multi-family and hospitality properties and commercial land. Major multiple-market
clients have a single point of contact through the firm's corporate and institutional units for coordination
of all of the firm's services as well as site selection, feasibility studies, market forecasts and research. For
more information, visit the company's website at www.grubb-ellis.com.
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