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Shelley Mann

1937 - 2005

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Shelley Isabel Mann (October 15, 1937 – March 24, 2005) was an American competition swimmer, who overcame childhood polio to win the first gold medal ever awarded in the women's 100-meter butterfly event at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. She was also a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic team that won the silver medal for the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Shelley Mann is the 235th most popular swimmer (up from 303rd in 2024), the 13,619th most popular biography from United States (up from 16,314th in 2019) and the 95th most popular American Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Shelley Mann ranks 235 out of 709. Before her are Shane Gould, Claudia Poll, Sergey Koplyakov, Shirley Babashoff, Novella Calligaris, and Petra van Staveren. After her are David Theile, Yana Klochkova, Zoltán Verrasztó, Sarah Sjöström, César Cielo, and Park Tae-hwan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Shelley Mann ranks 548. Before her are Viktor Yakushev, Manuel Astorga, Bob Boozer, Giuseppe Pericu, Ramanathan Krishnan, and Elinor Donahue. After her are Arthur Kopit, Al D'Amato, Del Harris, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Thad Cochran, and Tony Shelly. Among people deceased in 2005, Shelley Mann ranks 361. Before her are June Haver, Constance Cummings, Bob Denver, Ramanand Sagar, Wayne C. Booth, and Mason Adams. After her are Art Cross, Ronnie Barker, Kâzım Koyuncu, Lakshman Kadirgamar, David Di Tommaso, and Nadia Anjuman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shelley Mann ranks 13,623 out of 20,380. Before her are Dianne Holum (1951), Kiele Sanchez (1977), Diedrich Bader (1966), William G. Dever (1933), Danielle Harris (1977), and Chuck Arnold (1926). After her are Bobby Hackett (1915), Bob Wills (1905), Robert F. Stockton (1795), Nora Bayes (1880), Marilyn Quayle (1949), and Sue Monk Kidd (1948).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Shelley Mann ranks 95. Before her are Jerry Heidenreich (1950), Jane Barkman (1951), Leo Goodwin (1883), Keena Rothhammer (1957), Stephen Rerych (1946), and Shirley Babashoff (1957). After her are Pablo Morales (1964), Tim Shaw (1957), Jenny Thompson (1973), Donna de Varona (1947), Janet Evans (1971), and Tom Jager (1964).

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