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Jun 14, 2024 · At age 13, Donna de Varona was the youngest member of the United States swimming team at the Olympic Games Rome 1960. The San Diego native broke 18 world records by the age of 17, and won two gold medals when she competed in the 400-meter individual medley and the 4x100 freestyle relay at the Tokyo 1964 Games.
4 days ago · Olympic Swimmer Donna de Varona to be honored at Swim Across America June 29. This year marks 60 years since Donna de Varona earned her first individual Olympic gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, winning the women’s 400-meter individual medley.
3 days ago · This rally-style event will feature current and former athletes, coaches, and prominent women’s advocates, including Martina Navratilova, one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Donna de Varona, swimming Olympic Champion and Emmy award-winning sports broadcaster, Riley Gaines, 12x All-American NCAA swimmer, and Jennifer Sey, former ...
Jun 13, 2024 · Women's swimming legend Donna De Varona explains why transgender swimmer Lia Thomas will not be competing at the Olympics.
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1 day ago · The bus is hard to miss. It features the faces of a host of current and former female athletes actively opposed to male-born athletes in women’s sports, including Martina Navratilova, Kim Russell, Barbara Ehardt, Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlan, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, and Donna de Varona.
Jun 12, 2024 · Bobbie followed Olympian Donna de Varona's steps in the athletic field - rising from being a 16-year-old swimming Deaflympian in the 1973 Games in Malmo, Sweden, to President of the National Association of the Deaf in 2006.
May 31, 2024 · At the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964, he won a gold medal in the 10,000-meter run, which, at 6.2 miles, is the longest Olympic track and field foot race. At the time, he set a world record of 28 minutes, 24.4 seconds and remains the only American to ever win a gold medal in that race.
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