Lenore Kight

Lenore Kight

Personal information
Full name	Lenore M. Kight
National team	United States
Born	(1911-09-26)September 26, 1911 Frostburg, Maryland
Died	February 9, 2000(2000-02-09) (aged 88) Cincinnati, Ohio
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Carnegie Library Athletic Club
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for the United States Olympic Games Silver 1932 Los Angeles 400 m freestyle Bronze 1936 Berlin 400 m freestyle

Lenore M. Kight (September 26, 1911 – February 9, 2000^[1]), later known by her married name Lenore Wingard, was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at two consecutive Summer Olympics.^[2] 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

• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)

References

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

1932 USA Olympic swimming team Men's Team Frank Booth Gordon Chalmers Buster Crabbe Jim Cristy George Fissler Ralph Flanagan Basil Francis James Gilhula John Paulsen Maiola Kalili Manuella Kalili Robert Kerber Edwin Moles Albert Schwartz Raymond Thompson Dan Zehr Women's Team Jane Cadwell Helen Johns Norene Forbes Ann Govednik Margaret Hoffman Eleanor Holm Lenore Kight Helene Madison Josephine McKim Joan McSheehy Eleanor Saville

1936 USA Olympic swimming team Men's Team Jim Cristy Taylor Drysdale Peter Fick Ralph Flanagan Ralph Gilman John Higgins Arthur Highland Charles Hutter Jack Kasley Ray Kaye Adolph Kiefer Arthur Lindegren John Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's Team Alice Bridges Iris Cummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge Mary Lou Petty Katherine Rawls Elizabeth Ryan Dorothy Schiller Lenore Wingard