Nancy Garapick
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| Full name | Nancy Ellen Garapick | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |
 Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
September 24, 1961 Halifax, Nova Scotia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke, butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nancy Ellen Garapick (born September 24, 1961) is a former Canadian competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. She won two bronze medals in the 100-metre backstroke and 200-metre backstroke at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal at the age of 14, behind two East German athletes, Ulrike Richter and Birgit Treiber, who later were confirmed to be longstanding participants of the East German doping scandal of the 1970s. [1]"She set a new Olympic record for the 100-metre backstroke during heats but, because of the fraud perpetrated on the world by the East Germans, she was robbed of her two gold medals she had the right to take home against the backdrop of the honour and glory of being in her home country to receive the accolades of being Olympic champion in these two events. There is a continuing outcry to award the 1976 Olympic medals to the cheated athletes by stripping the East Germans of their ill-begotten wins.
Garapick's Olympic performances came on the heels of her world record performance on April 27, 1975 at the Eastern Canadian Swimming Championships in Brantford, Ontario, while a member of the Halifax Trojan Aquatic Club and coached by Nigel Kemp.[2] It was there that she set a new World Record in the 200m backstroke with a time of 2:16:33 at the age of 13.
In 2008, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.[3] The official ceremony took place November 5, 2008, in Toronto, Ontario.[4]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
- World record progression 200 metres backstroke
References
- ↑ . "Doping's Darkest Hour: The East Germans and the 1975 Olympic Games"]. Swimming World. 2013-28-11. Retrieved 2013-28-11. Check date values in:
|access-date=, |date=(help) - ↑ "Nigel Kemp, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame". Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame. 2008-10-08. Retrieved 2008-10-08.
- ↑ "Yzerman, Lewis among Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductees". The Sports Network. 2008-05-13. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ↑ "Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inducts its newest Honoured Members". Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. 2008-11-05. Retrieved 2008-11-09.