Linda Gustavson
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Full name | Linda Lee Gustavson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Santa Cruz, California | November 30, 1949|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 134 lb (61 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Santa Clara Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Linda Lee Gustavson (born November 30, 1949) is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. She represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where she received a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4x100-meter freestyle relay (4:02.5), a silver medal in the 400-meter freestyle (4:35.5), and a bronze medal in the 100-meter freestyle (1:00.3).[1]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- World record progression 200 metres freestyle
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay
References
- ^ 1968 Olympics – Mexico City, Mexico – Swimming databaseOlympics.com. Retrieved May 1, 2008.
External links
- Linda Gustavson – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
Categories:
- 1949 births
- Living people
- American female freestyle swimmers
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Sportspeople from Santa Cruz, California
- Swimmers at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- American swimming Olympic medalist stubs