Carolyn Green

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Carolyn Green

Personal information

Full name

Carolyn Virginia Green

Nationality

Born

Sport

Club

Fort Lauderdale Swim Association

Medal record

Women's swimming
Competitor for the United States
Pan American Games
Gold	1951 Buenos Aires	4×100 m freestyle
Gold	1955 Mexico City	4×100 m freestyle
Silver	1951 Buenos Aires	400 m freestyle
Silver	1955 Mexico City	400 m freestyle

Carolyn Virginia Green (born November 6, 1933) is an American former competition swimmer and two-time Pan American Games gold medalist.

Green represented the United States as an 18-year-old at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.^[1] She competed in the women's 400-meter freestyle, advanced to the event final, and finished fourth in a time of 5:16.5.^[1]^[2]

Green also swam in two consecutive Pan American Games.^[1]^[3] At the 1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, together with American teammates Jackie LaVine, Betty Mullen and Sharon Geary.^[1]^[3] Individually, she received a silver medal for her second-place performance in the women's 400-meter freestyle.^[3] Four years later at the 1955 Pan American Games in Mexico City, she again won a gold medal in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle, this time with teammates Judith Roberts, Wanda Werner and Gretchen Gluter.^[1]^[3] Once again, she also won a silver medal in the women's 400-meter freestyle.^[3]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Carolyn Green. Retrieved November 24, 2012.
↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games, Women's 400 metres Freestyle Final. Retrieved November 24, 2012.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 HickokSports.com, Sports History, Pan American Games Women's Swimming Medalists. Retrieved November 24, 2012.

v t e 1952 USA Olympic Swimming Team

Men's Team	Dick Cleveland Frank Dooley Ronald Gora Jerry Holan Burwell Jones Ford Konno Jimmy McLane Wayne Moore Monte Nitzkowski Yoshi Oyakawa Clarke Scholes Don Sheff Allen Stack Bowen Stassforth Jack Taylor Wally Wolf Bill Woolsey

Women's Team	Jody Alderson Julia Cornell Mary Freeman Carolyn Green Evelyn Kawamoto Jackie LaVine Deliana Meulenkamp Coralie O'Connor Gail Peters Judith Roberts Della Sehorn Barbara Stark Marilee Stepan

Persondata
Name	Green, Carolyn
Alternative names	Green, Carolyn Virginia; Green, Carolyn V.; Lewis, Carolyn
Short description	American swimmer, Olympian, Pan American Games gold medalist
Date of birth	November 6, 1933
Place of birth	Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of death
Place of death

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