Shirley Stobs

Shirley Stobs
Personal information
Full name Shirley Anne Stobs
National team  United States
Born (1942-05-20) May 20, 1942
Miami, Florida
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Weight 123 lb (56 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Miami Shores Country Club

Shirley Anne Stobs (born May 20, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. She competed at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where she received a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, together with her teammates Joan Spillane, Carolyn Wood and Chris von Saltza. She and her relay teammates set a new world record of 4:08.9 in the event final.[1]

See also

References

  1. "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Swimming"databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)


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