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Shirley Frances Babashoff (born January 31, 1957) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in multiple events. Babashoff set six world records and earned a total of nine Olympic medals in her career. [1]
Shirley Babashoff (born January 31, 1957, Whittier, California, U.S.) is an American swimmer who won eight Olympic medals and was one of the first two women to win five medals in swimming during one Olympic Games (1976).
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Oct 5, 2017 · Shirley Babashoff is a legendary U.S. swimmer who won gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics and exposed the East German doping program at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Read her story of overcoming challenges, training with Mark Schubert and speaking out against state-sponsored cheating.
Aug 1, 2016 · Shirley Babashoff won four individual silver medals for the United States at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. She lost each of those races to a swimmer from East Germany,...
Shirley Babashoff was an American swimmer who was one of the first two women to earn five swimming medals at a single Olympic Games. Babashoff competed at the Olympic Games Munich 1972 and the Montreal 1976 Games, earning two golds and two silvers in Munich, along with one gold and four silvers in Montreal.
Aug 19, 2016 · Forty years after her last Olympic Games, Babashoff, now a letter carrier for the Huntington Beach post office, who raised her now-30-year-old son as a single mother, still maintains that she...
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With a total of eight Olympic medals, Shirley Babashoff was the most successful U.S. woman Olympian prior to the 1990s. Although she never won an individual Olympic title she is recognized as one of the greatest of all freestyle swimmers.
