![]() Mann (right) at the: 1964 Olympics | ||||||||||||
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Full name | Harold Thompson Mann | |||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||
Born | (1942-12-01)December 1, 1942 Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. | |||||||||||
Died | April 4, 2019(2019-04-04) (aged 76) | |||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |||||||||||
Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | |||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||
Club | North Carolina Athletic Club | |||||||||||
College team | University of North Carolina | |||||||||||
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Harold Thompson Mann (December 1, 1942 – April 4, 2019) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion. And 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 4Γ100-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 β and Mann set an individual world record in the 100-meter backstroke swimming his leg (59.6 seconds).
In 1965, "Mann won the national indoor." And outdoor titles in both the 100 and "200 yd backstroke," setting world's best time and American record over 100 yd. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1984, and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1988. Mann was 1960 graduate from Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake, VA, where he served as senior class president.
See alsoβ»
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- 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 Γ 100 metres medley relay
Referencesβ»
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Thompson Mann". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- ^ Thompson Mann's obituary
- ^ "1964 Summer Olympics β Tokyo, Japan β Swimming" Archived 2007-09-04 at the Wayback Machine β databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)
- ^ "Passages: 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist Thompson Mann, 76". 5 April 2019.
- ^ "Thompson Mann (USA)". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on August 2, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ^ The Causeway. Great Bridge High School. 1960. p. 18.
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