Jon Urbanchek, a Hungarian immigrant who became a revered swimming coach in the United States and guided 44 swimmers to the Olympics, where they won 21 medals, 11 of them gold, died on May 9 in hospice care at his home in Fullerton, Calif. He was 87.
Jack Roach, a close friend and fellow coach, said the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease.
Urbanchek mainly made his name at the University of Michigan pool, where he coached the men’s swim team from 1982 to 2004 and led it to 13 Big Ten Conference titles, including 10 in a row at one point, and the 1995 N.