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Shelley Isabel Mann (October 15, 1937 – March 24, 2005) was an American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia where she won the gold medal in the women's 100-meter butterfly event, and was a member of the U.S. team that won the silver medal for the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

Shelley Mann

Personal information
Full name	Shelley Isabel Mann
National team	United States
Born	October 15, 1937 New York, New York
Died	March 24, 2005(2005-03-24) (aged 67)
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight	134 lb (61 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly, freestyle
Club	Walter Reed Swim Club
Medal record Women's swimming Representing the  United States Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne 100 m butterfly 1956 Melbourne 4x100 m freestyle Pan American Games 1955 Mexico City 100 m butterfly

Mann was born in Long Island, New York in 1937 to Hamilton and Isabel Mann. Her father was in the U.S. Navy during World War II.[1]

Mann caught polio at age six while living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She spent weeks in the hospital and was left with a paralyzed right leg.[1] She took up swimming to aid her recovery.[2] She learned to walk but with a significant limp.[1] She was a student at American University in Washington, D.C.

Career

In the pool, her limp didn't matter and Mann began practicing and taking lessons from some of the top professional coaches.[1]

She was a member of the Walter Reed Swim Club,[3] and began competing. The swim team had to train at 6:00am because the Walter Reed medical hospital was needed for the patients.[1] By the time she was 14 she had won the first of what would eventually be 24 AAU national championships in the freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, and individual medley events.[1]

She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "honor swimmer" in 1966,[4] and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.

See also

• List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
• List of American University people
• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)

References

External links

• Shelley Mann at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Shelley Mann (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame Archived 2015-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Mention of Shelley Mann's death

На других языках

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- [en] Shelley Mann

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[it] Shelley Mann

Shelley Mann (New York, 15 ottobre 1937 – Alexandria, Virginia, 24 marzo 2005) è stata una nuotatrice statunitense.

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[ru] Манн, Шелли

Шелли Изабел Манн (англ. Shelley Isabel Mann; 15 октября 1937, Нью-Йорк, Нью-Йорк — 24 марта 2005, Алегзандрия, Виргиния) — американская пловчиха, специалистка по плаванию баттерфляем и вольным стилем. Выступала за национальную сборную США по плаванию в середине 1950-х годов, чемпионка и серебряная призёрка летних Олимпийских игр в Мельбурне, обладательница бронзовой медали Панамериканских игр в Мехико, рекордсменка мира, многократная победительница первенств национального значения. Член Зала славы мирового плавания (1966).

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