Dan Harrigan
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| Full name | Daniel Lee Harrigan | |||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Dan" | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 29, 1955 South Bend, Indiana, U.S.[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Michiana Marlins | |||||||||||||||||
| College team | North Carolina State University | |||||||||||||||||
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Daniel Lee Harrigan (born October 29, 1955) is an American former backstroke swimmer. At the 1975 Pan American Games he won the 200 m backstroke event, but also contracted hepatitis and had to stop training for several months. He managed to recover by the 1976 Olympics and won there a bronze medal in the same event.[1][2]
Harrigan studied architecture at North Carolina State University,[1] where he swam for the NC State Wolfpack swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) competition from 1973 to 1976.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e Dan Harrigan. Sports-Reference.com
- ^ "Swimming at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 200 metres backstroke". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
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