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Full name | Walter Pierce Richardson | ||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | "Wally" | ||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||
Born |
Chicago, Illinois |
April 1, 1943 ||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) | ||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||
Club | Gopher Swim Club | ||||||||||||
College team | University of Minnesota | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Walter Pierce Richardson (born April 1, 1943) is an American former competition swimmer and former world record-holder. Richardson competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, where he swam the butterfly leg for the gold medal-winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. He did not receive a medal because only those swimmers who competed in the event final were medal-eligible under the 1964 Olympic rules.