Shirley Stobs
Appearance
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Full name | Shirley Anne Stobs | |||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Miami, Florida, U.S. | May 20, 1942|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 123 lb (56 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Miami Shores Country Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Shirley Anne Stobs (born May 20, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. She competed at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where she received a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, together with her teammates Joan Spillane, Carolyn Wood and Chris von Saltza. She and her relay teammates set a new world record of 4:08.9 in the event final.[1]
See also
[edit]- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay
References
[edit]- ^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Swimming" Archived 2007-09-04 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)
External links
[edit]- Shirley Stobs at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1942 births
- Living people
- American female freestyle swimmers
- World record setters in swimming
- Sportspeople from Miami
- Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- 20th-century American sportswomen
- American swimming Olympic medalist stubs