Bennett, Hait, Clark and Gillanders after breaking 4×100-meter world record in 1960 Olympic heats
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| Full name | Paul William Hait | ||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1940-05-25) May 25, 1940 (age 84) Pasadena, California | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 198 lb (90 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Santa Clara Swim Club | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Stanford University | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Paul William Hait (born May 25, 1940) is an American former competition swimmer and breaststroke specialist who is an Olympic champion and former world record-holder.
Hait won a gold medal in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he swam in the preliminary heats (with Steve Clark, Bob Bennett and Dave Gillanders) and in the final (with Frank McKinney, Lance Larson and Jeff Farrell), breaking the world record in both the heats and the finals. Individually, he finished eighth in the men's 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2:41.4.[1]
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