George Prifold Harrison (April 9, 1939 – October 3, 2011) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events.[2] He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he received a gold medal as the lead-off swimmer of the winning U.S. team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Harrison, together with his American relay teammates Dick Blick, Mike Troy and Jeff Farrell, set a new world record of 8:10.2 in the event final.[3]
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| Full name | George Prifold Harrison | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | April 9, 1939 Berkeley, California, U.S.[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 October 2011 (aged 72) | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 179 lb (81 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Santa Clara Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||
| College team | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||
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Individually Harrison won a silver medal in the 400-meter freestyle at the 1959 Pan American Games. He also held the world record in 200-meter individual medley (long course) from August 24, 1956, to July 19, 1958, and the world record in the 400-meter individual medley (long course) from June 24 to July 22, 1960.
Harrison studied at Acalanes High School, and in 1965 graduated from Stanford University, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and was later inducted into the Swimming Hall of Fame. He spent most of his career with Lee & Associates at Pleasanton, California, working in investment and industrial brokerage.[1] At the time of his death, from complications during surgery, he lived in Moraga, California.[4]
See also
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- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "George Harrison". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-12-11.
- ^ George Harrison's obituary. legacy.com
- ^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy– Swimming" Archived 2007-09-04 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 30, 2008)
- ^ George Harrison Obituary. Walnut Creek, CA, East Bay Times.
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