Richard Adolph Blick (born July 29, 1940) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He competed in

North Central College North Central College is a private college in Naperville, Illinois. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and has nearly 70 areas of study in undergraduate majors, minors, and programs through 19 academic departments organized in thre ...

Swim Club. He later competed at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where he won a gold medal as a member of the first-place U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Blick taught math and physical education for a number of years at

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in Cupertino California and in

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. He also was the principal in the 80s at Los Gatos Christian; he is now retired with his wife, Shirley, in

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."1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy– Swimming"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on April 30, 2008)

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* 1940 births Living people American male freestyle swimmers College men's swimmers in the United States World record setters in swimming North Central College alumni Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming Swimmers from Los Angeles Swimmers at the 1959 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States People from Kingsburg, California Sportspeople from Fresno County, California Sportspeople from San Jose, California Pan American Games medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games {{US-swimming-Olympic-medalist-stub

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