Jimmy McLane
McLane (left) in 1950 | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | James Price McLane, Jr. |
Nickname(s) | "Jimmy" |
National team |
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Born |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | September 13, 1930
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Club | New Haven Swim Club |
College team | Yale University |
James Price McLane, Jr. (born September 13, 1930) is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
McLane represented the United States as a 17-year-old at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England.[1] He won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the 4 × 200-meter freestyle relay, with teammates Wally Ris, Wally Wolf and Bill Smith. Ris, McLane, Wolf and Smith set a new world record of 8:46.0 in the event final.[2] Individually, he won another gold medal for his first-place showing in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle, with a time of 19:18.5, finishing almost 13 seconds ahead of Australian John Marshall (19:31.3).[3] He also earned a silver medal for his second-place finish in the men's 400-meter freestyle (4:43.4), finishing behind fellow American Bill Smith (4:41.0).[4]
Four years later at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, he won another gold medal by swimming the anchor leg for the first-place U.S. team in the 4 × 200-meter freestyle relay, together with relay teammates Wayne Moore, Bill Woolsey and Ford Konno. The Americans set a new Olympic record of 8:31.1 in the final.[5] In individual competition, he finished fourth in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle (18:51.5),[6] and seventh in the men's 400-meter freestyle (4:40.3).[7]
McLane was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,[8] and graduated from Phillips Academy. He attended Yale University, where he swam for the Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. He was a member of Skull and Bones, and graduated from Yale in 1953.[9] He retired from swimming after winning three gold medals at the 1955 Pan American Games. In 1970 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.[10]
See also
References
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Jimmy McLane Archived March 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1948 London Summer Games, Men's 4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay Final Archived October 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1948 London Summer Games, Men's 1500 metres Freestyle Final Archived November 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1948 London Summer Games, Men's 400 metres Freestyle Final Archived October 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games, Men's 4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay Final Archived January 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games, Men's 1500 metres Freestyle Final Archived November 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games, Men's 400 metres Freestyle Final Archived January 9, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ John Lohn, Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming, Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, p. 94 (2010). Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ "Barbara C. Hamby Is Married Here: Little Church Is Setting for Wedding to Pvt. J. McLane, 1952 Olympic Swimmer," The New York Times (January 14, 1954).
- ↑ Jimmy McLane (USA). International Swimming Hall of Fame
External links
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- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Jimmy McLane". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on March 7, 2009.