Wendy Weinberg
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Full name | Wendy Weinberg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Baltimore, Maryland |
June 27, 1958 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 126 lb (57 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Homewood Aquatics Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Virginia University of North Carolina |
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Medal record
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Wendy Weinberg (born June 27, 1958) is an American former competition swimmer who was an Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and Maccabiah Games medalist.[1]
At the 1973 Maccabiah Games, she won a gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle.[2] She won a total of four gold medals in the 1973 Maccabiah Games.[3][4]
In 1975, she established an American record in the 200-meter butterfly, swimming it in 2:18.2 at the West German Bremen Swimfest.[1] That year she also won a gold medal and set a new Pan American Games record in Mexico City in the 800-meter freestyle, winning it in 9:05.47.[1]
Weinberg represented the United States at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec. She won a bronze medal in the women's 800-meter freestyle for placing third (8:42.60), following East German Petra Thumer (8:37.14), and American teammate Shirley Babashoff (8:37.59).[1][5]
At the 1977 Maccabiah Games (the "Jewish Olympics"), Weinberg – who is Jewish[1][5][6][7] – won six gold medals and two silver medals.[8][9][10] Among her golds was a win in the 200-meter freestyle (in 2:08.96), the 200-meter butterfly, the 400-meter freestyle,[11] and a win in the 4×100-meter medley relay team which she was captain of (in 4:10.09).[9][12][13] One silver was in the 100-yard freestyle.[13]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of select Jewish swimmers
- List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
- List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Olympians
- List of University of Virginia people
References
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External links
- Wendy Weinberg – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
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- 1958 births
- Living people
- American female butterfly swimmers
- American female freestyle swimmers
- Jewish American sportspeople
- Jewish swimmers
- Maccabiah Games gold medalists
- Maccabiah Games silver medalists
- North Carolina Tar Heels swimmers
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Sportspeople from Baltimore, Maryland
- Swimmers at the 1975 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Virginia Cavaliers swimmers