Thompson Mann
Mann (right) at the 1964 Olympics
Harold Thompson Mann (December 1, 1942 – April 4, 2019) was an American swimmer. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. At that Olympic Games, he won a gold medal for swimming the lead-off backstroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the 4 x 100-meter medley relay. He and his relay teammates Bill Craig (breaststroke), Fred Schmidt (butterfly) and Steve Clark set a new world record of 3:58.4. Mann also set an individual world record in the 100-meter backstroke swimming his leg (59.6 seconds). He was born in Norfolk, Virginia.
Mann died on April 4, 2019, at the age of 76.[1]
References
- ↑ Wigo, Bruce (April 5, 2019). "Passages: 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist Thompson Mann, 76". Swimming World News. https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/passages-1964-olympic-gold-medalist-thompson-mann/. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
Other websites
- Thompson Mann Archived 2020-04-18 at the Wayback Machine at Sports-Reference.com
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