Carolyn House
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Full name | Carolyn House |
National team | United States |
Born | Los Angeles, California | August 23, 1945
Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) |
Weight | 110 lb (50 kg) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Club | Los Angeles Athletic Club |
Carolyn House (born August 23, 1945) is an American former competition swimmer and former world record-holder in two events. At the age of 15, she competed in the preliminary heats of the 400-meter freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, clocking a time of 5:00.7.[1]
During a ten-day span in August 1962, she broke the world records in both the 800-meter and 1,500-meter freestyle events. On August 16, 1962, she set a new world record of 9:51.6 in the 800-meter freestyle, On August 26, 1962, she established a new world mark of 18:44.0 for the 1,500-meter freestyle, cutting 18.8 seconds off the old mark. Both records would survive until July 1964, almost two years later.
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- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Carolyn House". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.
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