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| Full name | Virginia Ruth Duenkel | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Ginny" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 7, 1947 Orange, New Jersey | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 134 lb (61 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Summit YMCA | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Virginia Ruth Fuldner (née Duenkel; born March 7, 1947), also known as Ginny Fuldner, is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Duenkel medaled in two individual swimming events as a 17-year-old.[1] First, she won the women's 400-meter freestyle.[1] Then she received a bronze medal in the women's 100-meter backstroke.[1]
Duenkel was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1985.[2]
The "Ginny Duenkel Municipal Pool", in her hometown of West Orange, New Jersey was named in her honor. She attended West Orange High School,[3] and then the University of Michigan. The "Chris and Ginny Fuldner Aquatic Center" in Monett, Missouri is named in honor of Ginny and her husband and her contributions to the sport of swimming in Monett.[4]
