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Full name | Carol Klimpel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Toronto, Ontario |
March 30, 1963 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SS Aquatic Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Carol Klimpel (born March 30, 1963) is a female former freestyle swimmer from Canada, who was chosen to represent her native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, but did not participate because of the United States-led Boycott. She did compete at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and won a silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games with the women's relay team. At the 1978 Commonwealth Games, she won gold medals in the 100-metre freestyle and 4×100-metre freestyle and 4×100-metre medley relays.