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Full name | Harold Thompson Mann | ||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||
Born |
Norfolk, Virginia |
December 1, 1942 ||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | ||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||||||
Club | North Carolina Athletic Club | ||||||||||||
College team | University of North Carolina | ||||||||||||
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Harold Thompson Mann (born December 1, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, where he received a gold medal swimming for swimming the lead-off backstroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Mann and his relay teammates Bill Craig (breaststroke), Fred Schmidt (butterfly) and Steve Clark set a new world record of 3:58.4 – and Mann set an individual world record in the 100-meter backstroke swimming his leg (59.6 seconds).
He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1984, and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.