Lorraine Crapp

Personal information

Full name

Lorraine Joyce Crapp

Nationality

Australia

Born

1 October 1938 (age 73)
Sydney, New South Wales

Height

1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)

Sport

Swimming

Stroke(s)

Freestyle

Medal record

Women’s Swimming
Competitor for Australia
Olympic Games
Gold	1956 Melbourne	400 m freestyle
Gold	1956 Melbourne	4×100 m freestyle
Silver	1956 Melbourne	100 m freestyle
Silver	1960 Rome	4×100 m freestyle
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Gold	1954 Vancouver	100 m freestyle
Gold	1954 Vancouver	400 m freestyle

Lorraine Crapp (born 17 October 1938) is a former Olympic swimming champion representing Australia. She competed in two Olympic Games — the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics. She won two Olympic gold medals in 1956. On the one night (25 August 1956), Crapp broke the world record for the 200 m and 400 m freestyle in the Tobruk Pool during the Townsville Australian National Training Camp.

Some time after her retirement, Crapp and her husband won the first prize in one of the Sydney Opera House Lotteries.

References

Andrews, Malcolm (2000). Australia at the Olympic Games. Sydney, New South Wales: ABC Books. pp. 106–107. ISBN 0-7333-0884-8.
Howell, Max (1986). Aussie Gold.

Olympic Champions in Women's 400 m Freestyle

Olympic Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1912: Great Britain (Moore, Fletcher, Speirs, Steer)
1920: USA (Woodridge, Schroth, Guest, Bleibtrey)
1924: USA (Donnelly, Ederle, Lackie, Wehselau)
1928: USA (Lambert, Osipowich, Saville, Norelius)
1932: USA (Helen Johns, Saville, McKim, Madison)
1936: Netherlands (Selbach, Wagner, Den Ouden, Mastenbroek)
1948: USA (Corridon, Kalama, Helser, Curtis)
1952: Hungary (I. Novák, Temes, E. Novák, Szőke)
1956: Australia (Fraser, Leech, Morgan, Crapp)
1960: USA (Spillane, Stobs, Wood, von Saltza)
1964: USA (Stouder, de Varona, Watson, Ellis)
1968: USA (Barkman, Gustavson, Pedersen, Henne)
1972: USA (Babashoff, Barkman, Kemp, Neilson)
1976: USA (Peyton, Sterkel, Babashoff, Boglioli)
1980: East Germany (Krause, Metschuck, Diers, Hülsenbeck)
1984: USA (Johnson, Steinseifer, Torres, Hogshead)
1988: East Germany (Otto, Meißner, Hunger, Stellmach)
1992: USA (Haislett, Martino, Thompson, Torres)
1996: USA (Martino, Van Dyken, Fox, Thompson)
2000: USA (Van Dyken, Shealy, Thompson, Torres)
2004: Australia (Mills, Lenton, Thomas, Henry)
2008: Netherlands (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis)

Commonwealth Champions in Women's 100 m Freestyle

1930 – 1934: 100 yards 1938 – 1966: 110 yards 1970 – 2010: 100 metres

1930: Joyce Cooper (ENG) 1934: Phyllis Dewar (CAN) 1938: Evelyn de Lacy (AUS) 1950: Marjorie McQuade (AUS) 1954: Lorraine Crapp (AUS) 1958 – 1962: Dawn Fraser (AUS) 1966: Marion Lay (CAN) 1970: Angela Coughlan (CAN) 1974: Sonya Gray (AUS) 1978: Carol Klimpel (CAN) 1982: June Croft (ENG) 1986: Jane Kerr (CAN) 1990: Karen van Wirdum (AUS) 1994: Karen Pickering (ENG) 1998: Sue Rolph (ENG) 2002: Jodie Henry (AUS) 2006: Lisbeth Lenton (AUS) 2010: Alicia Coutts (AUS)

Commonwealth Champions in Women's 400 m Freestyle

1930: 400 yards 1934 – 1966: 440 yards 1970 – 2010: 400 metres

1930: Joyce Cooper (ENG) 1934: Phyllis Dewar (CAN) 1938: Dorothy Green (AUS) 1950: Joan Harrison (SAF) 1954: Lorraine Crapp (AUS) 1958: Ilsa Konrads (AUS) 1962: Dawn Fraser (AUS) 1966: Kathy Wainwright (AUS) 1970: Karen Moras (AUS) 1974: Jenny Turrall (AUS) 1978 – 1982: Tracey Wickham (AUS) 1986: Sarah Hardcastle (ENG) 1990 – 1994: Hayley Lewis (AUS) 1998: Susie O'Neill (AUS) 2002: Rebecca Cooke (ENG) 2006: Caitlin McClatchey (SCO) 2010: Rebecca Adlington (ENG)

Persondata
Name	Crapp, Lorraine
Alternative names
Short description	Swimmer
Date of birth	1 October 1938
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales
Date of death
Place of death