Thompson Mann

Thompson Mann

Personal information
Full name	Harold Thompson Mann
National team	United States
Born	December 1, 1942 Norfolk, Virginia
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke
Club	North Carolina Athletic Club
College team	University of North Carolina
Medal record Men's swimming Competitor for the United States Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo 4x100 m medley relay

Harold Thompson Mann (born December 1, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, where he received a gold medal swimming for swimming the lead-off backstroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Mann and his relay teammates Bill Craig (breaststroke), Fred Schmidt (butterfly) and Steve Clark set a new world record of 3:58.4 – and Mann set an individual world record in the 100-meter backstroke swimming his leg (59.6 seconds).^[1]

He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1984,^[2] and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
• List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
• List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Olympians
• World record progression 100 metres backstroke
• World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay

References

1. "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Swimming" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 29, 2008)
2. International Swimming Hall of Fame, Honorees, Thompson Mann (USA). Retrieved April 11, 2015.

External links

• Thompson Mann – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
• Thompson Mann (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame