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Full name | Euphrasia Louise Donnelly | ||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | "Fraze" | ||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||
Born |
Indianapolis, Indiana |
June 6, 1905||||||||||||
Died | May 20, 1963 Warsaw, Indiana |
(aged 57)||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) | ||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||
Club | Hoosier Athletic Club | ||||||||||||
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Euphrasia Louise Donnelly (June 6, 1905 – May 20, 1963) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. Donnelly represented the United States at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where she won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay event. Donnelly and her American relay teammates Gertrude Ederle, Ethel Lackie and Mariechen Wehselau set a new world record in the event final of 4:48.8.