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Shelley Mann

Shelley Mann
Personal information
Full name Shelley Isabel Mann
National team  United States
Born October 15, 1937
New York, New York
Died March 24, 2005(2005-03-24) (aged 67)
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight 134 lb (61 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly, freestyle
Club Walter Reed Swim Club

Shelley Isabel Mann (October 15, 1937 – March 24, 2005) was an American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia where she won the gold medal in the women's 100-meter butterfly event, and was a member of the runner-up U.S. team that won the silver medal for the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

Mann caught polio aged six and took up swimming to aid her recovery. She was a student at the American University in Washington, D.C.

A member of the Walter Reed Swim Club, arguably the most prolific women's swim team of the 1950s, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "honor swimmer" in 1966, and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.



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