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Shane Elizabeth Gould AM MBE (born 23 November 1956) is an Australian former competition swimmer. She won three gold medals, a silver medal and a bronze, at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Jul 2, 2024 · Shane Gould (born November 23, 1956, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a former Australian swimmer who won five Olympic medals and set world records in all five freestyle distances (100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,500 meters).
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Learn about Shane Gould, the 1972 Olympic swimmer who held all freestyle world records and won five medals. Explore her autobiography, adventure swims, and Bicheno accommodation.
Learn about Shane Gould, one of the world's greatest female swimmers and a versatile athlete, artist and philanthropist. Find out her achievements, interests, family, charities and business ventures.
- 23rd November 1956
- Milton Nelms 2007
- 172cm.
- Bicheno, Tasmania
Between July 1971 and January 1972, Shane Gould set world records in all five internationally recognised freestyle distances: the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1,500m. Short but sweet. A year after her amazing performance in Munich, Shane Gould retired from competition and stepped away from public life for 25 years.
Shane Gould was a phenomenal swimmer who broke or equaled 11 world records and won five medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics. She retired at 16 and became a torchbearer at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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Shane Gould had a prodigious career, and a brief one. She was still only 15, a shy and lissom schoolgirl, when she did what no Australian, male or female, has ever done - in 1972 in Munich she won three individual gold medals at a single Olympics, all of them in world record time.
