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Full name | Richard Michael McGeagh | ||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||
Born |
Los Angeles, California |
March 11, 1944 ||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 185 lb (84 kg) | ||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||||||
Club | Los Angeles Athletic Club | ||||||||||||
College team | University of Southern California | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Richard Michael McGeagh (born March 11, 1944) is an American former competition swimmer and former world record-holder. McGeagh participated in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He swam the backstroke leg for the gold medal-winning U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay during the preliminary heats of the event. He did not receive a medal, however; under the 1964 Olympic swimming rules only swimmers who competed in the event final were medal-eligible.