Full name Shelley Isabel Mann Club Walter Reed Swim Club Weight 61 kg Height 1.73 m | Role Swimmer Name Shelley Mann | |
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Born October 15, 1937 (age 86) ( 1937-10-15 ) New York, New York Olympic medals Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly | ||
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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 runner-up U.S. team that won the silver medal for the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay.
Mann caught polio aged six and took up swimming to aid her recovery. She was a student at the American University in Washington, D.C.
A member of the Walter Reed Swim Club, arguably the most prolific women's swim team of the 1950s, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "honor swimmer" in 1966, and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.
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