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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.
Shane Gould. The 1972 Australian Olympic Swimming Champion: 5 individual medals: 3 gold, 1 silver & 1 bronze. Shane is the only swimmer in history to hold all freestyle. world records, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m and the. 200m Individual Medley at the same time.
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2 days ago · 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).
Jun 10, 2024 · Shane Gould was only 15 when she swam at the Munich 1972 Olympics. But the Sydney-born youngster was already such a prominent force in the swimming world that she was the subject of eye-catching t-shirts worn by US athletes. "All that glitters is not Gould," the t-shirts read.
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 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.
Shane Gould, at the age of 15, stamped herself as one of the greatest female swimmers of her time. Gould competed in only one Olympic Games and won more medals, five, than any female Australian Athlete had ever done.
Australian Shane Gould was a swimmer of phenomenal talent who became the first woman to hold the world freestyle record at every distance from 100 metres to 1,500 metres. She achieved this remarkable feat in December 1971, just three weeks after her 15th birthday.
More than 40 years have elapsed since Australia’s Shane Gould lit up the pool at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, winning five medals – three of them gold - before deciding to quit swimming shortly afterwards.
