Tag: John Konrads
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Australian swimming great, Olympic gold medalist John Konrads dies at 78
John Konrads, who set 26 individual freestyle swimming world records and won an Olympic gold medal in 1960, has died, the Sport Australia Hall of Fame announced Monday. He was 78. Konrads was born in Latvia in 1942 and moved to Australia with his parents, his two sisters, and a grandmother in 1949. “As a…