An Olympic Silver Medalist In the Pool, Katie Grimes Finishes Top 15 In The Marathon Swim
Marathon swimmers face all sorts of conditions. In Paris, the open-water swimmers faced a mean current.
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Athlete Bio#
Age
68
Hometown
Fountain Valley, CA
Education
Fountain Valley High School (Fountain Valley, Calif.)
Personal
Daughter of Jack Babashoff and Vera Slivkoff...Has three siblings, Jack, Deborah and Bill, all of whom became competitive swimmers...Father, Jack, was a swim instructor...Set 37 national records throughout competitive career...Coached swimming at Fountain Valley High School and led to its first-ever California Interscholastic Federation Championship in girls’ Swimming...Received the Olympic Order in 2005, the highest award of the Olympic Movement.Olympic Experience
- 2-time Olympian; 9-time Olympic medalist (3 gold, 6 silver)
- Olympic Games Montreal 1976, (400m Individual Medley - Women), gold (4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Women), silver (200m Freestyle - Women, 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Women, 400m Freestyle - Women, 800m Freestyle - Women), 5th (100m Freestyle - Women)
- Olympic Games Munich 1972, gold (4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Women, 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Women), silver (100m Freestyle - Women, 200m Freestyle - Women), 4th (400m Freestyle - Women)
World Championships Experience
- Most recent: 1975 – gold (200m Freestyle - Women, 400m Freestyle - Women), silver (100m Freestyle - Women, 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Women, 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Women), bronze (800m Freestyle - Women), 4th (200m Individual Medley - Women)
- Years of participation: 100m Freestyle - Women 1973, 1975; 200m Freestyle - Women 1973, 1975; 200m Individual Medley - Women 1975; 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Women 1973, 1975; 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Women 1973, 1975; 400m Freestyle - Women 1975; 800m Freestyle - Women 1975
- Medals: 10 (2 gold, 7 silver, 1 bronze)
- Gold – 1975 (200m Freestyle - Women, 400m Freestyle - Women)
- Silver – 1975 (100m Freestyle - Women, 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Women, 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Women); 1973 (100m Freestyle - Women, 200m Freestyle - Women, 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Women, 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Women)
- Bronze – 1975 (800m Freestyle - Women)
Hall Of Fame Bio #
Shirley Babashoff was an American swimmer who was one of the first two women to earn five swimming medals at a single Olympic Games. Babashoff competed at the Olympic Games Munich 1972 and the Montreal 1976 Games, earning two golds and two silvers in Munich, along with one gold and four silvers in Montreal. The nine-time Olympic medalist set six world records in individual Swimming events and swam on five world-record relay teams for a total of 11 world records. Born in Whittier, California, Babashoff was the most successful U.S. female Olympian prior to the 1990s. She dominated the 1976 U.S. Olympic Trials, winning every freestyle event and the 4x100-meter individual medley, while setting the world record in the 800 freestyle. She published an autobiography in 2016 entitled, “Making Waves: My Journey to Winning Olympic Gold and Defeating the East German Doping Program.”
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