Nancy Simons
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| Full name | Nancy Joan Simons | ||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 United States | ||||||||||||
| Born |
May 20, 1938 Oakland, California | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Stroke(s) | Freestyle | ||||||||||||
| Club | Chicago Town Club | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nancy Joan Simons Peterson (born May 20, 1938) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. She represented the United States as an eighteen-year-old at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where she won a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay with Sylvia Ruuska, Shelley Mann and Joan Rosazza.[1] She also competed individually in the women's 100-meter freestyle, but did not advance beyond the event semifinals.
She later married and took the last name Peterson.
See also
References
- ↑ "Swimming at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Women's 4×100 metres freestyle relay". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
External links
- Nancy Simons – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
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