Word: medica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kennedy will be assisted this year by Jack Medica, the former Olympic and national champion, who has been added to the Lion coaching roster...
...Ralph Flanagan, Miami free-style star, his third A.A.U. mile championship with a new world's record of 20 min. 42.6 sec., bettering Jack Medica's 1934 mark by 15.2 sec.; his second 440-yd. championship with a U. S. and meet record of 4 min. 46 sec., setting along the course a new 300 yd. U. S. record of 3 min. 14.2 sec.; his second 880-yd. championship in 10 min. 19.2 sec.: in Chicago. Backstroke Champion Adolph Kiefer lowered his own meet record in the 100-meter championship...
...sweep the swimming races at Berlin as they did at Los Angeles four years ago, the Japanese last week did nothing of the sort. When the six men's events were over, U. S. swimmers had won the 100-metre backstroke (Adolph Kiefer), 400-metre free style (Jack Medica). Japanese swimmers had won only three events (200-metre breast stroke, 1,500-metre free style, and 800-metre relay). U. S. victories by Dick Degener and Marshall Wayne in springboard and platform diving respectively clinched aquatic superiority...
...seven Records at the meet, five were set by the University of Washington's famed junior,. Jack Medica. He swam the 220-yd. free-style in 2:10.8, fastest competitive time on record. Next evening he won the 500-yd. free style in 5:16.3, breaking the accepted world's record for that distance by 10 seconds, setting marks for 250, 300 and 400 yd. en route. Sixth important record was 1 :36.1 for the 150-yd. back stroke, made by Adolph Kiefer...
Swimmers. Jack Medica has been recognized as the ablest middle-distance free-style swimmer in the U. S. since Johnny Weissmuller became a cinemactor. Peter Fick, last week's free-style sprint winner, 20 years old, 185 lb., broke Weissmuller 's 100-metre record last year. Third of last week's main Olympic hopes, unknown nationally until this winter, Adolph Kiefer is a 16-year-old Chicagoan, trained by his father, onetime swimming instructor in the German Army...