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Dick Cleveland Personal information Full name Richard Fitch Cleveland Nickname(s) Spoofy Nationality United States Born September 21, 1929
Honolulu, HawaiiDied July 27, 2002 (aged 72)
Kailua-Kona, HawaiiSport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) Freestyle College team Ohio State University Medal recordRichard ("Dick") Fitch Cleveland (September 21, 1929 – July 27, 2002) was an American swimmer. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. At the 1951 Pan American Games he won three gold medals.
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Pan American Champions in Men's 100 m Freestyle 1951: Dick Cleveland | 1955: Clarke Scholes | 1959: Jeffrey Farrell | 1963: Steve Clark | 1967: Don Havens | 1971: Frank Heckl | 1975: Richard Abbott | 1979: David McCagg | 1983: Rowdy Gaines | 1987: Todd Dudley | 1991: Gustavo Borges | 1995: Gustavo Borges | 1999: Fernando Scherer | 2003: José Meolans | 2007: César Cielo | 2011: César CieloPan American Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay 1951: United States (Gora, Jones, Cleveland, Heusner) • 1955: United States (Smith, Yorzyk, Moore, McLane) • 1959: United States (Blick, Sintz, Rounsavelle, Winters) • 1963: United States (Ilman, McDonough, Lyons, Townsend) • 1967: United States (Schollander, Hickcox, Charlton, Spitz) • 1971: United States (Heidenreich, McConica, Genter, Heckl) • 1975: United States (DeMont, Favero, Horner, Curington) • 1979: United States (Goodell, Larson, Kirshner, Gaines) • 1983: United States (Larson, Saeger, Hayes, Gaines) • 1987: United States (Robinson, Jones, O'Brien, Witchell) • 1991: United States (Keppeler, Wells, Tippins, Diehl) • 1995: United States (Olsen, Davis, Berube, Burgess) • 1999: United States (Messner, Phillips, Howard, Tucker) • 2003: United States (Lochte, Goldberg, Lee, Ketchum) • 2007: Brazil (Pereira, Castro, Salatta, Oliveira) • 2011: United States (Dwyer, Robison, Houchin, Patton)
Pan American Champions in Men's 4×100 m Medley Relay 1951: United States (Stack, Stassforth, Cleveland) · 1955: United States (McKinney, Maguire, Baarcke, Scholes) · 1959: United States (McKinney, Munsch, Troy, Farrell) · 1963: United States (McGeagh, Craig, Richardson, Kirby) · 1967: United States (Russell, Webb, Spitz, Walsh) · 1971: United States (Murphy, Job, Heidenreich, Heckl) · 1975: United States (Rocca, Colella, Curington, Babashoff) · 1979: United States (Jackson, Lundquist, Placak, McCagg) · 1983: United States (Carey, Lundquist, Gribble, Gaines) · 1987: United States (Gill, Korhammer, King, Dudley) · 1991: United States (Gill, Dersch, Merrell, Thomas) · 1995: United States (Rouse, Van Neerden, Henderson, Olsen) · 1999: Brazil (Massura, Tomazini, Scherer, Borges) · 2003: United States (Marshall, Gangloff, Michaelson, Brunelli) · 2007: United States (Bal, Gangloff, Berens, Grant) · 2011: Brazil (Guido, França, Mangabeira, Cielo)
Categories:- 1929 births
- 2002 deaths
- American swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- People from Honolulu, Hawaii
- Ohio State Buckeyes athletes
- College swimmers in the United States
- Former world record holders in swimming
- American swimming biography stubs
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