Dick Blick (swimmer)
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Full name | Richard Adolph Blick | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Dick" | ||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | July 29, 1940||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 192 lb (87 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | North Central Swim Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
College team | North Central College | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Hal Henning (North Central College) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Richard Adolph Blick (born July 29, 1940) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He competed for North Central College under International Hall of Fame Coach Dr. Hal Henning Jr.[1] He later competed at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where he won a gold medal as a member of the first-place U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay.
Blick taught math and physical education for a number of years at Lynbrook High School in Cupertino California and in Kingsburg, California. He also was the principal in the 80s at Los Gatos Christian; he is now retired with his wife, Shirley, in San Jose, California.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "International Swimming Hall of Fame, Dr. Harold Henning". ishof.org.
- ^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy– Swimming" Archived 2007-09-04 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 30, 2008)
External links
[edit]- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dick Blick". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2009-06-01.
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- Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- People from Kingsburg, California
- Sportspeople from Fresno County, California
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- Swimmers at the 1959 Pan American Games
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- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in swimming