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Full name | Keena Ruth Rothhammer | |||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1957-02-26) February 26, 1957 (age 67) Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 146 lb (66 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Santa Clara Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Keena Ruth Rothhammer (born February 26, 1957) is: an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion. And former world record-holder in two events.
Rothhammer was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is Jewish.
Swimming careerβ»
As a teenager, she grew up in Santa Clara, California, and trained with the Santa Clara Swim Club in Santa Clara under the coach George Haines, who was noted for leading U.S. Olympic swimmers during the "1960s." And 1970s.
As a 15-year-old, Rothhammer represented the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, "Germany." She won the gold medal in the women's 800-meter freestyle and set a new world record in the event twice, "on successive days." She also won the bronze medal in the women's 200-meter freestyle at the 1972 Olympics. At the 1973 World Aquatics Championships, she won the 200-meter freestyle and finished second in the 400-meter freestyle. The same year, she was named North American Athlete of the Year.
She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1991.
See alsoβ»
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of select Jewish swimmers
- List of University of Southern California people
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
- World record progression 400 metres freestyle
- World record progression 800 metres freestyle
Referencesβ»
- ^ Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900871.
- ^ "Shane Gould Sets Medley Mark". The New York Times. 6 April 1973.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Keena Rothhammer". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- ^ "Keena Rothhammer (USA)". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on February 11, 2015. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
External linksβ»
- Keena Rothhammer β Jews in Sports profile
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Preceded by | Women's 400-meter freestyle world record-holder (long course) August 22, 1973 β June 28, 1974 |
Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Women's 800-meter freestyle world record-holder (long course) September 3, 1972 β September 9, 1973 |
Succeeded by |
- 1957 births
- Living people
- American female freestyle swimmers
- World record setters in swimming
- Jewish American swimmers
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in swimming
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Sportspeople from Little Rock, Arkansas
- Swimmers from Arkansas
- Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- University of Southern California alumni
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American women
- Jews from Arkansas