Category: History
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2018 Pac-12 Hall of Honor Inductee: California swimmer Matt Biondi
Former Cal swimmer Matt Biondi is a member of the 2018 Pac-12 Hall of Honor class. During his time at Cal (1983-87), Biondi won 12 NCAA championships and 14 conference titles, eventually earning the Pac-12 Men’s Swimmer of the Century honor in 2016. He was a three-time Olympian, earning 11 total medals.
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Georges Vallery, Jr. Induction into Swimming Hall of Fame
Georges Vallery, Jr’s Induction as a pioneer swimmer into the international swimming hall of fame in the class of 2017
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Legendary Chinese swimmer Wu Chuanyu
Legendary Chinese swimmer Wu Chuanyu was the first male swimmer to represent China in the Olympic Games. Born in Indonesia, the ethnically Chinese Wu represented Nationalist China and in the 1948 London Olympics and in 1952 represented the People’s Republic of China. In 1953 he became the first Chinese athlete to win a gold medal…
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Mysteries at the Museum – Annette Kellerman
Mysteries at the Museum host Don Widman visits the International Swimming Hall of Fame to revel one of the most significant events in cultural history.
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Mysteries at the Museum – Gertrude Ederle
Host Don Widman and Mysteries at the Museum visits the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale to discover a swim suit that changed attitudes toward women athletes.
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The Race That Changed Olympic Swimming | Strangest Moments
The very close medal race between Australia’s John Devitt and Team USA’s Lance Larson inspired real change in the sport of Swimming. The 100m freestyle swimming gold medal at Rome 1960 was decided by judges in one of the most controversial wins in Olympic Games history.
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The international Swimmer: 1964 Olympic Swimming
The official Speedo film of the 1964 Olympic Swimming events featuring the great swimmers, techniques and highlights from the Games. 12 new World Records and every Olympic record broken.
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The Audacity of Annette Kellerman
The context for the milestone achievements of a Michael Phelps or a Katie Ledecky lies with knowing the history of their forerunners. The International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale plays a key role in preserving the memory of all aquatic history. Annette Kellerman, was not only the most famous swimmer in her day,…
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3 Alcatraz inmates survived 1962 escape, swam to land, letter suggests
A letter emerged Tuesday that was purportedly written by a former inmate at Alcatraz who — along with two others — managed to escape the island prison only to vanish without a trace. The running theory about the inmates’ fate is that they died shortly after stepping foot into the cold waters that separated the…