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Shane Elizabeth Gould, MBE (born 23 November 1956)
is an Australian former
swimmer who won three gold
medals, a silver and bronze in 1972 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Born in Sydney, Australia (on the first day
of competition of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics), Gould
moved to Fiji with her family at
the age of 18 months. By the age of six, she was a competent
swimmer. She attended St. Peters Lutheran
College, Brisbane, where a sporting house is named after her.
She was trained by leading coaches Forbes and Ursula Carlile and their
assistant Tom Green.
At the 1972 Summer Olympics, in Munich, Gould won three gold medals, setting a
world record in each race. She also won a bronze and a silver
medal.
At the age of 16, she retired from swimming.
She is the only person, male or female, to hold every world freestyle
record from 100 m to 1500 m simultaneously, and the first female
swimmer ever to win three Olympic gold medals in world record
time.
She was one of the bearers of the Olympic Torch at the
opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia.
She carried the Olympic Torch at the stadium, as one of the runners
for the final segment, before the lighting of the Olympic Flame.
She now divides her time between Launceston, Tasmania and Sydney,
and still swims, in Masters competitions.
Other
achievements
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