Debbie Meyer

Olympic medal record
Women's swimming
Competitor for the  United States
Gold	1968 Mexico City	200 m freestyle
Gold	1968 Mexico City	400 m freestyle
Gold	1968 Mexico City	800 m freestyle

Deborah ("Debbie") Elizabeth Meyer (born August 14, 1952 in Annapolis, Maryland) is a former American swimmer who won the 200, 400, and 800 m swimming events at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. While still a 16-year old student at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, California, she became the first swimmer to win three individual gold medals in one Olympics.^[1]

Career

Meyer set world records in 200, 400 and 800 m freestyle events at the Olympics trials. Her winning times at the Olympics were 2:10.5 for 200 m, 4:31.8 for 400 m, and 9:24.0 for 800 m, all of them new [Olympic Records] records. Despite suffering from asthma, she broke twenty world records, which landed her in the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in 1986.^[2] She also broke 24 American records and won 19 Amateur Athletic Union championships.

In 1968, she won the James E. Sullivan Award. In 1969, she was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year. In 1972, she retired from competition.

On July 5, 2004 she was inducted into the United States National High School Hall of Fame. In memory of her Olympic achievement she uses the custom car license plate 3GOLD68.

Meyer is married to Bill Weber. She owns the Debbie Meyer Swim School in Carmichael, California. According to the business website, Meyer has taught swimming in the Sacramento, California area since the 1970s and opened the school in 1993. Along with teaching children and adults to be safer in the water Debbie is coaching the Truckee Tahoe Swim Team in her hometown of Truckee, California.

Debbie Meyer has a son, Colin a 21 years old and is currently attending Sierra College in Roseville, California, and a daughter.

References

1. ^ "AHEAD OF HER TIME DEBBIE MEYER DIDN'T CASH IN ON OLYMPIC SUCCESS, BUT SHE'S A HALL OF FAMER", The Sacramento Bee, September 20. 1987. Accessed November 29, 2007. "The swimmer was Debbie Meyer, then a 16-year-old Rio Americano High School student."
2. ^ U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame Class of 1986, United States Olympic Team. Accessed November 29, 2007.

External links

• Debbie Meyer Swim School

Records
Preceded by Patricia Carreto	Women's 1500 metres Freestyle World Record Holder (Long Course) July 9, 1967 – December 12, 1971	Succeeded by Shane Gould

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Name	Meyer, Debbie
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Date of birth	August 14, 1952
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