Shirley Stobs
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Full name | Shirley Anne Stobs | |||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Miami, Florida | May 20, 1942|||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 123 lb (56 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Miami Shores Country Club | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Shirley Anne Stobs (born May 20, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. She competed at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where she received a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, together with her teammates Joan Spillane, Carolyn Wood and Chris von Saltza. She and her relay teammates set a new world record of 4:08.9 in the event final.[1]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay
References
- ↑ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Swimming" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)
External links
- Shirley Stobs – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
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