Mann (right) at the 1964 Olympics
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| Full name | Harold Thompson Mann | |||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||
| Born | (1942-12-01)December 1, 1942 Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.[1] | |||||||||||
| Died | April 4, 2019(2019-04-04) (aged 76)[2] | |||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||
| Club | North Carolina Athletic Club | |||||||||||
| College team | University of North Carolina | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Harold Thompson Mann (December 1, 1942 – April 4, 2019) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and 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 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).[3]
In 1965, Mann won the national indoor and outdoor titles in both the 100 and 200 yd backstroke, setting a world's best time and American record over 100 yd.[4] He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1984,[5] and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1988. Mann was 1960 graduate from Great Bridge High SchoolinChesapeake, VA, where he served as senior class president.[6]
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