Thompson Mann

Thompson Mann

Personal information
Full name	Harold Thompson Mann
National team	United States
Born	(1942-12-01) December 1, 1942 Norfolk, Virginia
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke
Club	North Carolina Athletic Club
College team	University of North Carolina
Medal record Men's swimming Representing the United States Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo 4x100 m medley relay

Harold Thompson Mann (born December 1, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, where he received a gold medal swimming for swimming the lead-off backstroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×100-meter medley relay. Mann and his relay teammates Bill Craig (breaststroke), Fred Schmidt (butterfly) and Steve Clark set a new world record of 3:58.4 – and Mann set an individual world record in the 100-meter backstroke swimming his leg (59.6 seconds).^[1]

He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1984,^[2] and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
• List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
• List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Olympians
• World record progression 100 metres backstroke
• World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay

References

External links

• Thompson Mann – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
• Thompson Mann (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame

1964 USA Olympic swimming team
Men's team	Wayne Anderson Mike Austin Bob Bennett Steve Clark Bill Craig Gary Dilley Bill Farley Jed Graef Gary Ilman Chet Jastremski Virgil Luken David Lyons Thompson Mann Richard McGeagh Bill Mettler John Nelson Walter Richardson Philip Riker Carl Robie Dick Roth Roy Saari Fred Schmidt Don Schollander Lary Schulhof Ed Townsend Tom Trethewey Michael Wall
Women's team	Lynne Allsup Erika Bricker Donna de Varona Ginny Duenkel Kathy Ellis Cathy Ferguson Sharon Finneran Cynthia Goyette Jeanne Hallock Nina Harmer Tammy Hazleton Claudia Kolb Sandra Nitta Susan Pitt Marilyn Ramenofsky Martha Randall Judy Reeder Patience Sherman Terri Stickles Sharon Stouder Lillian Watson
Staff	James Counsilman (men's head coach) Peter Daland (women's head coach) George Haines (men's assistant coach) Harold Henning (manager) Elizabeth Philcox (assistant manager) Albert J. Sehorn (manager) Kenneth Treadway (assistant manager)