Patty Kempner

Patty Kempner

Personal information
Full name	Patricia Kempner
Nickname	"Patty"
National team	United States
Born	(1942-08-24) August 24, 1942 Augusta, Georgia
Height	5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
Weight	123 lb (56 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke, individual medley
Club	Kristensen Swim School
Medal record Women's swimming Representing the United States Olympic Games 1960 Rome 4x100 m medley relay

Patricia Kempner (born August 24, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events.

On April 27, 1957, she became the first woman to set an official world record in the 200-meter individual medley, clocking 2:48.2 at a swim meet in Chicago, Illinois. The record would survive for over a year.

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, she won a gold medal by swimming the breaststroke leg for the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, together with teammates Lynn Burke (backstroke), Carolyn Schuler (butterfly), and Chris von Saltza (freestyle). The U.S medley relay team set a new world record in the event final of 4:41.1. Individually, she also competed in the women's 200-meter breaststroke, finishing seventh in the event final.

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
• World record progression 200 metres individual medley
• World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay

External links

• Patty Kempner – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com