 Women's 100-meter butterfly winners at 1960 Olympics: Carolyn Schuler (1), Marianne Heemskerk (2) and Jan Andrew (3). | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Carolyn Jane Schuler | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 5, 1943 San Francisco, California | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 139 lb (63 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Berkeley YMCA | |||||||||||||||||
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Carolyn Jane Schuler (born January 5, 1943) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
She represented the United States as a 17-year-old at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where she won two gold medals.[1] She received her first gold medal for winning the women's 100-meter butterfly, with a new Olympic record time of 1:09.5.[2] She earned a second gold medal as a member of the first-place United States team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, together with teammates Lynn Burke (backstroke), Patty Kempner (breaststroke), and Chris von Saltza (freestyle). The winning U.S. medley relay set a new world record of 4:41.1 in the event final.[3]
Schuler was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1989.[4]
