Wendy Boglioli
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| Full name | Wendy Lou Lansbach Boglioli | |||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||
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March 6, 1955 Merrill, Wisconsin |
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| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 141 lb (64 kg) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle100 Meter Butterfly | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Central Jersey Aquatic Club | |||||||||||||||
| College team | Monmouth College | |||||||||||||||
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Wendy Boglioli (born March 6, 1955), née Wendy Lou Lansbach, is an American former swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. After retiring from competition swimming, she became a coach, and later, a motivational speaker. She grew up in Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin.
She is best known for winning the gold medal in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay in world record time at the 1976 Montréal Olympics with teammates Shirley Babashoff, Kim Peyton and Jill Sterkel. The gold was particularly crucial to the U.S. women's team as it was the only gold medal awarded to them during the games.
Boglioli also won the bronze medal in the women's 100-meter butterfly, behind East German swimmers Kornelia Ender and Andrea Pollack. During the 1990s, it was confirmed that Ender and Pollack were given performance-enhancing drugs during the East German doping scandal of the 1970s. Therefore, Boglioli most likely would have won the gold medal, were it not for the presence of Ender and Pollack.
Boglioli served as assistant coach of the Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team at Yale University, together with her husband Bernie Boglioli.
In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Boglioli's name and picture.
Boglioli began competitive track cycling at the age of 40. She competed in the 1995 and 1996 U.S. Masters Track Cycling National Championship where she earned a total of 8 Gold Medals.(USA Masters Track Cycling, USCF). She also competed in the Senior National Track Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1996.(USCF)
In 1997, she entered the long-term care insurance field, and served as national spokeswoman for Genworth Financial's Long Term Care Division. Her trademarked In the Arms of Women initiative was the first of its kind in the industry to recognize the distinctive needs of women clients.
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