Carolyn Schuler

Carolyn Schuler

Women's 100-meter butterfly winners at 1960 Olympics: Carolyn Schuler (1), Marianne Heemskerk (2) and Jan Andrew (3).
Personal information
Full name Carolyn Jane Schuler
National team United States
Born (1943-01-05) January 5, 1943
San Francisco, California
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight 139 lb (63 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly
Club Berkeley YMCA

Carolyn Jane Schuler (born January 5, 1943) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.

She represented the United States as a 17-year-old at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where she won two gold medals.[1] She received her first gold medal for winning the women's 100-meter butterfly, with a new Olympic record time of 1:09.5.[2] She earned a second gold medal as a member of the first-place United States team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, together with teammates Lynn Burke (backstroke), Patty Kempner (breaststroke), and Chris von Saltza (freestyle). The winning U.S medley relay set a new world record of 4:41.1 in the event final.[3]

Schuler was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1989.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Carolyn Schuler. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1960 Roma Summer Games, Women's 100 metres Butterfly Final. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1960 Roma Summer Games, Women's 4 × 100 metres Medley Relay Final. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ International Swimming Hall of Fame, Honorees, Carolyn Schuler (USA) Archived August 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved March 11, 2015.


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