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Ed Townsend (swimmer)

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Nickname(s)
  
"Ed"

Sport
  
Weight
  
200 lb (91 kg)


Height
  
6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)

National team
  
United States

Name
  
Ed Townsend

Full name
  
Robert Edward Townsend, Jr.

Born
  
September 13, 1943 (age 81) (
1943-09-13
)

Robert Edward Townsend, Jr. (born September 13, 1943) is an American former competition swimmer, Pan American Games gold medalist, and former world record-holder.

Townsend won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay at the 1963 Pan American Games. He participated in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he swam for the gold medal-winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Under the 1964 Olympic swimming rules, he was ineligible for a medal, however, because he did not swim in the relay final.

Townsend attended Yale University, where he was a standout swimmer for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team from 1963 to 1965. He won an NCAA national championship in the 400-yard individual medley (1963), and three more as a member of winning Yale teams in the 400-yard freestyle relay (1963, 1964, 1965).

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Ed Townsend (swimmer) Wikipedia


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