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Full name | Judith Theresa Roberts | ||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||
Born |
Dallas, Texas |
May 15, 1934||||||||||||
Died | November 22, 2016 | (aged 82)||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||
Club | Indianapolis Athletic Club | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Judith Theresa Roberts (May 15, 1934 – November 22, 2016) was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Roberts competed in the women's 100-meter freestyle, advanced to the semifinals, and finished fourteenth overall with a time of 1:08.2.
Three years later at the 1955 Pan American Games in Mexico City, she won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay. Her American relay teammates at the Pan American Games included Carolyn Green, Wanda Werner and Gretchen Kluter.