Susan Rapp

Susan von der Lippe

Personal information

Full name

Susan von der Lippe

National team

United States

Born

July 5, 1965 (age 51)
Ft Carson, CO

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Weight

146 lb (66 kg)

Sport

Swimming

Strokes

Breaststroke

College team

Stanford University

Medal record

Women's swimming
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
	1984 Los Angeles	4x100m medley
	1984 Los Angeles	200 m breast
Pan American Games
	1983 Caracas	200 m breast
	1983 Caracas	200 m medley

Susan von der Lippe (born July 5, 1965), née Susan Gerard Rapp, is an American competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and Masters world record-holder in multiple events.

She attended Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Pacific-10 Conference competition.

Rapp first qualified for the 1980 Olympic games, but was unable to compete due to the United States-led boycott of the Olympic games hosted by the Soviet Union. Four years later at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she had significant success. She won a silver medal for her second-place performance in the women's 200-meter breaststroke, finishing with a time of 2:31.15. She earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter medley relay. Individually, she also finished seventh in the final of the women's 100-meter breaststroke, recording a time of 1:11.45.

Four years later at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, Rapp competed in the B Final of the women's 200-meter breaststroke, finishing thirteenth overall with a time of 2:32.90.

At the age of 42, von der Lippe qualified for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100-meter breaststroke and 100-meter butterfly.

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