Shelley Mann
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| Olympic medal record | ||
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| Women’s swimming | ||
Competitor for the  United States |
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| Gold | Melbourne 1956 | 100 m butterfly |
| Silver | Melbourne 1956 | 4x100 m freestyle |
Shelley Isabel Mann (born October 15, 1937 in New York) is a former butterfly swimmer from the United States. At the 1956 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal in the 100 m butterfly competition and was a member of the relay team that won the silver medal for the 100 m freestyle.
Mann caught polio aged six and took up swimming to aid her recovery.[1] She was a student at the American University in Washington, D.C.
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- ^ "“At the age of five she had polio. … Her parents took her daily to a swimming pool where they hoped the water would help hold her arms up as she tried to use them again. When she could lift her arm out of the water with her own power, she cried for joy. Then her goal was to swim the width of the pool, then the length, then several lengths. She kept on trying, swimming, enduring, day after day after day, until she won the gold medal for the butterfly stroke—one of the most difficult of all swimming strokes” (Marvin J. Ashton, April 1975 General Conference Report)"
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- Hickok, Ralph (2004-09-10). "Biography: Shelley Mann". Hickock Sports.com. http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/mannshelley.shtml.
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