Dick Blick (swimmer)
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| Full name | Richard Adolph Blick | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Dick" | ||||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
July 29, 1940 Los Angeles, California |
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| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 192 lb (87 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | North Central Swim Club | ||||||||||||||||||
| College team | North Central College | ||||||||||||||||||
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Richard Adolph Blick (born July 29, 1940) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He competed in North Central College Swim Club. He later competed at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where he won a gold medal as a member of the first-place U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay.
Blick taught math and physical education for a number of years at Lynbrook High School in Cupertino California and in Kingsburg, California; he is now retired with his wife, Shirley, in San Jose, California.
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