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This baying, to be sure, did not noticeably discourage the guest athletes. The Canadians, who had not won a gold medal in Olympic swim competition since 1912, collected four golds, three silvers and three bronzes. Their heroes, two-time gold Medleyist Alex Baumann and Breaststroker Victor Davis, who have maple leaves tattooed on their chests, and Breaststroker Anne Ottenbrite, who does not, cheerfully threw Frisbees into the crowd on their way to get their medals. The Dutch women may have deserved an award for the most medals from the smallest country: a total of six, including Petra Van Staveren...
Individual medleyist Anita Rival led the way with two qualitiers in the 200 freestyle and the 100 IM. Also topping Eastern qualifying times were butterflies Carry Mazzone (200 free). Allison Grers (200 IM). Diane Smith (100 IM). Annie Wilson (100 butterfly), and Shelby Calvert (100 butterfly...
...said yesterday that the Brazilians nixed the events because their best medleyist. Ricardo Prado, couldn't make the meet. Prado is finishing his senior year at Mission Viejo High School--Barnes' alma mater...
...women in the Rapp family--Betsy, a junior at the University of Florida in Gainesville, is the women's swim team captain and has been nationally and internationally ranked in the 100- and 200-butterfly distances since she first rose to prominence in 1975. Jenny, a top-flight individual medleyist and backstroker, is Stanford-bound this fall; she is one of four woman swimmers who have accepted Stanford's offer of a full, four-year scholarship. And Susan, at 15, has recently rocketed to world fame in the 100- and 200-meter breast-strokes--finishing a close third place...
...Cummins, a sophomore medleyist and distance freestyler, will face the Crimson trio of Larry Countryman, Ted Chappell, and Tim Maximoff (all of whom have recorded better times than Cummins), in the meet's second event...