Geoffrey Lloyd Shipton (born 4 June 1941) is an Australian former sprint freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
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Full name | Geoffrey Lloyd Shipton | |||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | "Geoff" | |||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1941-06-04) 4 June 1941 (age 81) Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||
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The New South Welshman combined with David Theile, Neville Hayes and Terry Gathercole to win silver in the 4×100-metre medley relay, behind the United States and in front of Japanese team by just 0.2 of a second, the first time this event had been contested at the Olympics. Shipton had previously won a bronze medal in the 110-yard freestyle at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, behind fellow Australians John Devitt and Gary Chapman.
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