Susan Pedersen (swimmer)
![]() Sue Pedersen (left) with coach Sherm Chavoor and Debbie Meyer in 1967 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Susan Jane Pedersen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | "Sue" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sacramento, California, U.S. | October 16, 1953|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 154 lb (70 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Arden Hills Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Sherm Chavoor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Susan "Sue" Jane Pedersen (born October 16, 1953), also known by her married name Susan Pankey, is an American former competition swimmer, four-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder in two events.
As a 15-year-old, Pedersen represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where she received a total of four medals.[1] She won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, and another swimming for the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, while setting Olympic records in both.[2] Individually, she received silver medals for her second-place finishes in the women's 100-meter freestyle (1:00.3),[3] and women's 200-meter individual medley.[4]
She held the world record in the 200-meter freestyle (2:09.5) from July 6, 1968, to August 2, 1968. She was also a member of world-record U.S. teams in the 4×100-meter medley relay and the 4×200-meter freestyle relay.[5]
Pedersen was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1995.[5]
See also[]
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- World record progression 200 metres freestyle
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
References[]
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- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Sue Pedersen. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, United States Swimming at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games, Women's 100 metres Freestyle Final. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
- ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games, Women's 200 metres Individual Medley Final. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
- ^ a b International Swimming Hall of Fame, Honorees, Sue Pedersen (USA). Retrieved on September 8, 2015.
- 1953 births
- Living people
- American female medley swimmers
- American female freestyle swimmers
- World record setters in swimming
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- Sportspeople from Sacramento, California
- Swimmers at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games
- 21st-century American women