Marilyn Wilson (swimmer)
Appearance
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Full name | Marilyn Joy Wilson | ||||||||||||||
National team | Australia | ||||||||||||||
Born | Richmond, Victoria | 14 July 1943||||||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marilyn Joy Wilson (born 14 July 1943), known after her marriage as Marilyn Young, is an Australian former backstroke swimmer of the 1960s, who won a silver medal in the women's 4×100-metre medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. She combined with her Australian teammates Dawn Fraser, Jan Andrew and Rosemary Lassig to finish second in the medley relay, trailing the Americans relay team by five seconds. In her only individual event, the women's 100-metre backstroke, Wilson competed in the preliminary heats, but did not advance.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Andrews, Malcolm (2000). Australia at the Olympic Games. Sydney, New South Wales: ABC Books. p. 464. ISBN 0-7333-0884-8.
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- 1943 births
- Living people
- Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Australia
- Australian female backstroke swimmers
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Swimmers from Melbourne
- Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen
- Australian swimming biography stubs