Carolyn Schuler
Women's 100-meter butterfly winners at 1960 Olympics: Carolyn Schuler (1), Marianne Heemskerk (2) and Jan Andrew (3).
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| Full name | Carolyn Jane Schuler | |||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||
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January 5, 1943 San Francisco, California |
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| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 139 lb (63 kg) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Berkeley YMCA | |||||||||||||||
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Carolyn Jane Schuler (born January 5, 1943) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
She represented the United States as a 17-year-old at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where she won two gold medals. She received her first gold medal for winning the women's 100-meter butterfly, with a new Olympic record time of 1:09.5. She earned a second gold medal as a member of the first-place United States team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, together with teammates Lynn Burke (backstroke), Patty Kempner (breaststroke), and Chris von Saltza (freestyle). The winning U.S medley relay set a new world record of 4:41.1 in the event final.
Schuler was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1989.
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