Cathy Carr (swimmer)
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Full name | Catherine L. Carr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | "Cathy" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Albuquerque, New Mexico | May 27, 1954||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 115 lb (52 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Coronado Navy Swimming Association | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Davis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Catherine L. Carr (born May 27, 1954) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events.
Carr was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and graduated from Highland High School in Albuquerque.[1] She trained for the Olympics with the Coronado Swim Club under 1960 Olympic gold medalist Mike Troy.[1]
Carr represented the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.[1] She won a gold medal swimming the breaststroke leg for the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4x100-meter medley relay, together with her teammates Melissa Belote (backstroke), Deena Deardurff (butterfly), and Sandy Neilson (freestyle).[2] The American medley relay team set a new world record of 4:20.75 in the event final, outrunning the East German and West German teams by 4.16 and 5.71 seconds, respectively.[2] Individually, Carr also won a gold medal in the women's 100-meter breaststroke, setting a new world of 1:13.58 in the final, and besting Soviet Galina Prozumenshchikova by 1.41 seconds.[3]
She held the long course world record in the 100-meter breaststroke (set at the 1972 Olympics) from September 2, 1972, to August 22, 1974. Her world record in the 4x100-meter medley relay survived from September 2, 1972, to September 4, 1973. Carr was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1988.[4]
Carr is a 1977 graduate of the University of California, Davis, and swam for the first UC Davis Aggies women's swim team.[5] She now works teaching the fourth grade at Pioneer Elementary School in Davis, California.[5]
She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1988.[4]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of University of California, Davis alumni
- World record progression 100 metres breaststroke
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Cathy Carr. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1972 München Summer Games, Women's 4 × 100 metres Medley Relay Final. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1972 München Summer Games, Women's 100 metres Breaststroke Final. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 International Swimming Hall of Fame, Honorees, Cathy Carr (USA). Retrieved on March 15, 2015.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mark Honbo, "From Olympic gold to Aggie blue," UC Davis Magazine Online (Summer 2012). Retrieved March 15, 2015.
External links
- Cathy Carr – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
- Cathy Carr (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame
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