I am looking for a list of Olympian Masters and what Olympics and events they particpated in. If you have such a list or know where one is, please let me know. Individual anecdotes are OK too.
Background:
I want to write to "Splash" magazine and ask them to feature some of the people on such a list when they write about great swimmers. I'm tired of reading (and having my kids read) about so-and-so great swimmer, who got to the Olympics, did great, and now swimming is behind them (i.e. they don't swim anymore). On the "mission statement" of Splash, they give lip service to a lifelong involvement with swimming, but they never seem to come up with an example of such a person.
wiredknight
Gail,
Is the list published somewhere? If not, if you could e-mail it to me I could capture it as a PDF document and attach it to this thread. That way we could all look for "missing" names.
Ron Neugent swims in my LMSC; he was a member of the U.S. 1980 team.
Anna Lea
Anna Lea and Paul:
If you want to find a list of all swimmers that have made the USA Olympic Roster and the results of all USA Olympic Trials and Qualifing Selection meet as they used to call it back many years ago, you can find it here on the USA Swimming site. www.usaswimming.org/.../DesktopDefault.aspx
If you see any masters swimmers that are not on Gail's list, report them to Gail. This list obviously does not include USMS swimmers that represented other countries in the Olympics. Also watch out for changed names. For instance Gail Peters is Gail Roper on the 1952 list.
Gail,
Is the list published somewhere? If not, if you could e-mail it to me I could capture it as a PDF document and attach it to this thread. That way we could all look for "missing" names.
Ron Neugent swims in my LMSC; he was a member of the U.S. 1980 team.
Anna Lea
Anna Lea and Paul:
If you want to find a list of all swimmers that have made the USA Olympic Roster and the results of all USA Olympic Trials and Qualifing Selection meet as they used to call it back many years ago, you can find it here on the USA Swimming site. www.usaswimming.org/.../DesktopDefault.aspx
If you see any masters swimmers that are not on Gail's list, report them to Gail. This list obviously does not include USMS swimmers that represented other countries in the Olympics. Also watch out for changed names. For instance Gail Peters is Gail Roper on the 1952 list.
