Thompson Mann
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| Full name | Harold Thompson Mann | ||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||
| Born |
December 1, 1942 Norfolk, Virginia | ||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||||||
| Club | North Carolina Athletic Club | ||||||||||||
| College team | University of North Carolina | ||||||||||||
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Harold Thompson Mann (born December 1, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, where he received a gold medal swimming for swimming the lead-off backstroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Mann and his relay teammates Bill Craig (breaststroke), Fred Schmidt (butterfly) and Steve Clark set a new world record of 3:58.4 – and Mann set an individual world record in the 100-meter backstroke swimming his leg (59.6 seconds).[1]
He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1984,[2] and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
- List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Olympians
- World record progression 100 metres backstroke
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
References
- ↑ "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Swimming" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)
- ↑ International Swimming Hall of Fame, Honorees, Thompson Mann (USA). Retrieved April 11, 2015.
External links
- Thompson Mann – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
- Thompson Mann (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame
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