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| Full name | Daniel Lee Harrigan | |||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Dan" | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 29, 1955 South Bend, Indiana, U.S.[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Michiana Marlins | |||||||||||||||||
| College team | North Carolina State University | |||||||||||||||||
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Daniel Lee Harrigan (born October 29, 1955) is an American former backstroke swimmer. At the 1975 Pan American Games he won the 200 m backstroke event, but also contracted hepatitis and had to stop training for several months. He managed to recover by the 1976 Olympics and won there a bronze medal in the same event.[1][2]
Harrigan studied architecture at North Carolina State University,[1] where he swam for the NC State Wolfpack swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) competition from 1973 to 1976.
