Carolyn Schuler
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Full name | Carolyn Jane Schuler | |||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
Born | San Francisco, California | January 5, 1943|||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 139 lb (63 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Berkeley YMCA | |||||||||||||||||
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Carolyn Jane Schuler (born January 5, 1943) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
She represented the United States as a 17-year-old at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where she won two gold medals.[1] She received her first gold medal for winning the women's 100-meter butterfly, with a new Olympic record time of 1:09.5.[2] She earned a second gold medal as a member of the first-place United States team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, together with teammates Lynn Burke (backstroke), Patty Kempner (breaststroke), and Chris von Saltza (freestyle). The winning U.S medley relay set a new world record of 4:41.1 in the event final.[3]
Schuler was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1989.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Carolyn Schuler. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1960 Roma Summer Games, Women's 100 metres Butterfly Final. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1960 Roma Summer Games, Women's 4 × 100 metres Medley Relay Final. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ International Swimming Hall of Fame, Honorees, Carolyn Schuler (USA) Archived August 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
External links
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Carolyn Schuler". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
- Carolyn Schuler (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame
- 1943 births
- Living people
- American female butterfly swimmers
- American female freestyle swimmers
- Former world record holders in swimming
- International Swimming Hall of Fame inductees
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Sportspeople from San Francisco
- Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- American swimming Olympic medalist stubs