Nancy Simons
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| Full name | Nancy Joan Simons | ||||||||||||||
| National team | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States | ||||||||||||||
| Born | May 20, 1938 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Chicago Town Club | ||||||||||||||
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Nancy Joan Simons (born May 20, 1938), later known by her married name Nancy Peterson, is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. She represented the United States as an eighteen-year-old at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where she won a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay with Sylvia Ruuska, Shelley Mann and Joan Rosazza.[1] She also competed individually in the women's 100-meter freestyle, but did not advance beyond the event semifinals.
See also
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Nancy Simons – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
Categories:
- 1938 births
- Living people
- American female freestyle swimmers
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- Sportspeople from Oakland, California
- Stanford University alumni
- Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century American sportswomen
- Swimmers from California
- American swimming Olympic medalist stubs