Jed Richard Graef (born May 1, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
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Full name | Jed Richard Graef | ||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||
Born | (1942-05-01) May 1, 1942 (age 80) Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.[1] | ||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||||
Weight | 201 lb (91 kg) | ||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||||
Club | North Jersey Swim Association | ||||||||||
College team | Princeton University | ||||||||||
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Graef grew up in Verona, New Jersey and learned the backstroke while competing with the Montclair YMCA swim team.[2] He attended Princeton University, where he was captain of the Princeton Tigers swim team in 1964.[3] Graef won the gold medal in the men's 200-meter backstroke at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[4]
Graef defended a PhD in psychology and is considered as a prominent authority in sports psychology.[1] He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1988.[5]
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