Harold Thompson Mann (December 1, 1942 – April 4, 2019) was an American competition
swimmer
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, Olympic champion, and world record-holder. He competed at the
1964 Summer Olympics
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in Tokyo, Japan, where he received a gold medal swimming for swimming the lead-off backstroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the
4×100-meter medley relay. Mann and his relay teammates
Bill Craig (breaststroke),
Fred Schmidt
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(butterfly) and
Steve Clark
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set a new world record of 3:58.4 – and Mann set an individual world record in the 100-meter backstroke swimming his leg (59.6 seconds).
["1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Swimming"]
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)
In 1965, Mann won the national indoor and outdoor titles in both the 100 and 200 yd backstroke, setting a world's best time and American record over 100 yd. He was inducted into the
International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1984,
and the
Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1988. Mann was 1960 graduate from
Great Bridge High School
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History
Great Bridge opened in 1907, holding students from 1st through 12th grade. Another larger build ...
in
Chesapeake, VA, where he served as senior class president.
See also
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List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
The International Swimming Hall of Fame
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List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
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List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Olympians
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World record progression 100 metres backstroke
This is a history of the 100 m backstroke world record as swum in both long-course (50 m; Olympic) pools and short-course (25 m) pools—the two categories recognized/tracked by FINA.
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Short course
Women
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World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
References
1942 births
2019 deaths
American male backstroke swimmers
World record setters in swimming
North Carolina Tar Heels men's swimmers
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Universiade medalists in swimming
Universiade bronze medalists for the United States
Medalists at the 1965 Summer Universiade
20th-century American people
21st-century American people
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