Dick Cleveland
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Richard Fitch Cleveland | ||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | "Dick," "Spoofy" | ||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Honolulu, Hawaii | September 21, 1929||||||||||||||||||
Died |
July 27, 2002 72) Kailua-Kona, Hawaii | (aged||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||
College team | Ohio State University | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Richard Fitch Cleveland (September 21, 1929 – July 27, 2002) was an American competition swimmer, three-time Pan American Games champion, and former world record-holder.
Cleveland enrolled at Ohio State University, where he swam for the Ohio State Buckeyes swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition.
At the 1951 Pan American Games in Bueonos Aires, Argentina, he won gold medals in the men's 3×100-meter medley relay, 4×200-meter freestyle relay, and 100-meter freestyle. At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, he competed in the 100-meter freestyle but did not qualify for the event final.
See also
References
- Dick Cleveland – Olympic athlete profile from Sports-Reference.com
- Richard Cleveland (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/9/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.