Cathy Jean Ferguson (born July 22, 1948) is an American former competition

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, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. She competed at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, where she received the gold medal for winning the women's 100-meter backstroke, and another gold as a member of the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay. Cathy Ferguson was one of six world record holders in the 100m backstroke final at the 1964 Olympics. She proved to be the best of this distinguished field by taking the gold medal with a new record of 1:07.7. Having set a world record over 200m the previous month, she thus became the record holder at both backstroke distances. She also set two world records in the medley relay the second of these coming at the Tokyo Olympics where she was a member of the winning U.S. team. Ferguson was a student at Burbank High School in Burbank, California, when she became an Olympic champion. Ferguson was inducted into the

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as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1978.

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Image of U.S. Olympic swimmers Cathy Ferguson, Sharon Stouder and Claudia Kolb at LA Swim Stadium, California, 1964.

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. 1948 births Living people American female backstroke swimmers World record setters in swimming Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Sportspeople from Stockton, California Swimmers at the 1963 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1967 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games 21st-century American women {{US-swimming-Olympic-medalist-stub

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