Christer Tour was a two-year swimming letterwinner (2006-08), who earned eight First Team All-American accolades including two national championships (100 breaststroke and 200 medley relay) in 2008.
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His 100 breaststroke national champion time (54.74) surpassed national and school records. With this accomplishment, Tour became Wayne State's first male swimming individual national champion since 1941 and its first ever while in Division II.
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The national championship in the 200 medley relay was the first national champion relay in school history. The previous year, the 200 medley relay placed second nationally with a school record time that also came under the previous national record but was 0.35 seconds behind North Dakota's winning time.
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A six-time GLIAC champion, he won the 100 breaststroke and 200 breaststroke both years, along with being on both the 200 and 400 medley relay champions in 2007. His 2008 times in both the 100 breaststroke (55.56) and 200 breaststroke (2:02.98), broke the Wayne State and GLIAC marks.
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During his two-year stint in Detroit, the Warriors won one GLIAC title and placed second the other while finishing third (2007) and sixth (2008) at the NCAA Championships.
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The Stockholm, Sweden native, earned Athletic Director's Academic Honor Roll accolades (term gpa 3.5+) all three semesters he attended WSU. He graduated from Stockholm School of Economics.
