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Full name | Wayne Richard Moore | |||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Bridgeport, Connecticut |
November 20, 1931|||||||||||||||||||||
Died | February 20, 2015 Trumbull, Connecticut |
(aged 83)|||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||
Club | New Haven Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Yale University | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Wayne Richard Moore (November 20, 1931 – February 20, 2015) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Moore represented the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, where he won a gold medal in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay with U.S. teammates Bill Woolsey, Ford Konno and Jimmy McLane. Individually, Moore also competed in the men's 400-meter freestyle at the 1952 Olympics, finishing in sixth place in the event final.
Moore was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1931, the son of Richard F. and Mary S. Moore. He was a 1945 graduate of Warren Harding High School, and graduated from Yale University in 1953 with a degree in economics. Swimming for the Yale Bulldogs under coach Bob Kiphuth, Moore won NCAA titles in the 220-yard freestyle in 1952 and 440-yard freestyle in 1953. After college, Moore was drafted in the U.S. Army and served during the Korean War.
Moore died February 20, 2015; he was 83 years old.