Lenore Kight
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| Nationality |
 United States | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
September 26, 1911 Frostburg, Maryland | |||||||||||||||
| Died |
February 9, 2000 (aged 88) Cincinnati, Ohio | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Stroke(s) | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Carnegie Library Athletic Club | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lenore M. Kight (September 26, 1911 – February 9, 2000) was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at two consecutive Summer Olympics.[1] At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a silver medal in the women's 400-meter freestyle event. Four years later at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, she won a bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle event.
See also
References
- ↑ databaseOlympics.com, Athletes, Lenore Kight-Wingard. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
External links
- Lenore Kight (USA) – Honors Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame
- Lenore Kight-Wingard – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
- "Sport: Daughters' Girl" Time magazine 6 August 1934
- "Athletes: Lenore Kight" Photograph in the February 1934 issue of Vanity Fair
- "Holds 7 world's records in speed swimming" Lenore Kight Wingard in a Camel cigarette advertisement, Life magazine 19 July 1937, back cover
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