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Year Gold Silver Bronze 1973 Belgrade: Kornelia Ender East Germany Shirley Babashoff United States Enith Brigitha Netherlands 1975 Cali: Kornelia Ender (2) East Germany ...
This is an overview of the women's swimming champions in individual events at the Olympics and the World Aquatics Championships. These tournaments are the only global long course (50 meter pool) swimming championships organized by world swimming federation FINA. This list gives an overview of the dominant swimmers throughout the history of ...
Georgia Tech Aquatic (now Campus Recreation) Center hosted the swimming competitions when the 1996 Summer Olympics were in Atlanta. For the Summer Olympics there are 31 venues that have been or will be used for swimming. The first venue took place in The Bay of Zea for the 1896 Games. [1] Four years later, the events took place on the River ...
Jul. 13—TUPELO — Members of the Tupelo Community Theatre (TCT) will honor the memory (and birthday) of their longtime leader and fervent supporter with a fun, boozy event next month.
Despite the U.S. women's water polo team's success — winning gold medals at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics — the sport doesn't get the same support that soccer, basketball and ...
Ruby Bridges (born 1954), first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the South [1]; Will D. Campbell (1924–2013), Baptist minister and activist (Amite County) [2]
It is named for Jean Freeman, the university's long-time women's swimming coach. [1] The main competition pool is named after Dorothy L. Sheppard, a multi-sport athlete for the University in the 1920s and a donor to the Aquatics Center and a benefactor of women's sports at the university.
Jul. 18—For the first time in the city's history, three women will serve on the seven-member board of the Tupelo City Council, and two Black women will serve simultaneously, redefining what it ...