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Deborah ("Debbie") Elizabeth Meyer (born August
14, 1952 in Annapolis, Maryland) is a former
American swimmer who won the 200, 400, and 800 m swimming
events at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. While
still a 16-year old student at Rio Americano High School in
Sacramento, California, she
became the first swimmer to win three individual gold medals in one
Olympics.[1]
Career
Meyer set world records in 200, 400 and 800 m freestyle events
at the Olympics trials. Her winning times at the Olympics were
2:10.5 for 200 m, 4:31.8 for 400 m, and 9:24.0 for 800 m, all of
them new world records
records. Despite suffering from asthma, she broke twenty world records, which
landed her in the United States Olympic
Hall of Fame in 1986.[2]. She
also broke 24 American records and won 19 Amateur Athletic Union
championships.
In 1968, she won the James E. Sullivan Award. In
1969, she was named Associated Press
Athlete of the Year. In 1972, she retired from competition.
On July 5, 2004 she was inducted into the United States National High School Hall of Fame. In
memory of her Olympic achievement she uses the custom car license
plate 3GOLD68.
Meyer is married to Bill Weber. She owns the Debbie Meyer Swim
School in Carmichael, California.
According to the business website, Meyer has taught swimming in the
Sacramento, California area
since the 1970s and opened the school in 1993. Along with teaching
children and adults to be safer in the water Debbie is coaching the
Truckee Tahoe Swim Team in her hometown of Truckee,
California.
Debbie Meyer has one son and one daughter. Her son Colin is 21
years old and is currently attending Sierra College in Roseville, California.
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