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Geoff Shipton

Geoff Shipton
Personal information
Full name Geoffrey Lloyd Shipton
Nickname(s) "Geoff"
National team  Australia
Born (1941-06-04) 4 June 1941 (age 75)
Sydney, New South Wales
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Geoffrey Lloyd Shipton (born 4 June 1941) is an Australian former sprint freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

The New South Welshman combined with David Theile, Neville Hayes and Terry Gathercole to win silver in the 4×100-metre medley relay, behind the United States and in front of Japanese team by just 0.2 of a second, the first time this event had been contested at the Olympics. Shipton had previously won a bronze medal in the 110-yard freestyle at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, behind fellow Australians John Devitt and Gary Chapman.



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