Jenny Kemp
Appearance
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Full name | Jennifer Jo Kemp | |||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Jenny" | |||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.[1] | May 28, 1955|||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 146 lb (66 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Cincinnati Marlins | |||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Cincinnati | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jennifer Jo Kemp (born May 28, 1955) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. At the 1972 Olympics she won a gold medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, setting a world record, and reached semifinals of the individual 100-meter freestyle event.[2]
Kemp initially specialized in the backstroke before changing to freestyle in 1971. Next year she won the 100 m AAU title.[1]
See also
[edit]- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of University of Cincinnati people
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay
References
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jenny Kemp.
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jenny Kemp". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-11-13.
- ^ 1972 Olympics – München, Germany – Swimming Archived 2008-08-20 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on May 1, 2008)
Categories:
- 1955 births
- Living people
- American female freestyle swimmers
- Cincinnati Bearcats women's swimmers
- World record setters in swimming
- Swimmers from Cincinnati
- Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1975 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games
- American swimming Olympic medalist stubs
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in swimming