{"id":362784,"date":"2019-04-05T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T20:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=362784"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T22:40:42","slug":"passages-1964-olympic-gold-medalist-thompson-mann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-1964-olympic-gold-medalist-thompson-mann\/","title":{"rendered":"Passages: 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist Thompson Mann, 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thompson Mann<\/strong> passed away on April 4, 2019 after suffering from\u00a0failing health for\u00a0several years. \u00a0He was 76\u00a0years old.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Harold Thompson Mann was born on Dec. 1, 1942, in Norfolk, Virginia.\u00a0He moved with his family to Richmond at the age of 4, started swimming and subsequently swam for the Country Club of Virginia. He attended high school at Great Bridge and went on to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he swam for Coach <strong>Pat Eary<\/strong>. He was a two-time All-American on the swim team and held three Atlantic Coast Conference records.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson Mann was the main rival of Princeton&#8217;s &#8220;Backstroke King,&#8221; <strong>Jed Graef<\/strong>. Graef swam for renowned &#8220;Mr. A&#8221; &#8211; Hall of Fame coach <strong>Bob Alexander<\/strong> in Wayne, New Jersey. One of Mr. A&#8217;s philosophies was that the stronger the competition in practice, the faster you would swim in competition. \u00a0So in 1963, after Graef had beaten Thompson in both the 100 and 200 yard backstroke at the Eastern Championships, Jed invited his Carolina rival to live with his family and train with him in New Jersey under Alexander. Although rivals in the pool, they quickly became fast friends out of it.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the USA had five or six of the best backstrokers in the world and Jed believed that by training together both could make the Olympic Team. Although there was no 100m race in the Tokyo Games, two backstroke swimmers would make the team for the 400m Medley Relay. \u00a0Three swimmers would qualify in the individual 200 meter event.<\/p>\n<p>The first backstroke event at 1964 Swimming Olympic Trials in Flushing Meadows, NY was the 200. \u00a0As reported in the NY Times: \u201cBoth Mann and Graef qualified for the final. \u00a0In the final, Mann set such a suicidal pace that he missed the world record for the 100 by only a second and he still had half the race ahead. \u00a0He paid the price for his apparent indiscretion by tiring badly and finishing fifth. Graef, who had stayed close to the pace, finished second and made the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, Mann won the 100 meter final in a new world record time of 1:00.00 flat and also made the team.<\/p>\n<p>At the Olympic Games in Tokyo Graef\u00a0out-touched American <strong>Gary Dilly<\/strong> to win the gold medal in the 200 in a world record time. \u00a0American Bob Bennett finished third. In the medley relay, Thompson Mann led off and\u00a0became the first man in swimming history to go under a minute on his back.\u00a0 His time was 59.6. \u00a0Along with his\u00a0teammates<strong> Bill Craig <\/strong>(breaststroke) of\u00a0Glendale, California,\u00a0<strong>Fred Schmidt<\/strong>\u00a0(butterfly) of\u00a0Northbrook, Illinois, and\u00a0Steve Clark\u00a0of\u00a0Los Altos, California, the team also set a world record and won the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>After the Games, a reporter approached Alexander\u00a0with a question. \u00a0&#8220;Why had Mann, an excellent judge of pace, swum what appeared to be a stupid race\u00a0in the U.S. 200 meter Trials?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really was,\u201d says teammate <strong>Dick McDonough<\/strong>, \u201cMr. A emphasized two things: stroke technique and pace control. Our workouts, which were minimalist by today&#8217;s standards, involved telling him our times to the split second after we did sprints. Eventually we developed mental clocks that generally were accurate to within .5 of\u00a0 second. That made Thompson&#8217;s first 100 at the Trials seem way out of whack with how we had been trained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know,&#8221; said Alexander, &#8220;Thompson knew if Jed made the team, Jed\u00a0could win the Olympic title, and he knew he would make the team himself in the 100 meters. For three weeks\u00a0before the trials, Thompson kept saying to me, &#8216;We&#8217;ve got to get Jed on the team.&#8217; Now why should he be so concerned about someone else when he was trying to make the team himself? After the Olympics, I asked Thompson about it. He just walked away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Mann confided to McDonough, that a few weeks before the trials Mr. A told him \u00a0he was virtually a lock to make the Olympic team in the 100.\u00a0\u201cI think Thompson thrived on that assurance and it was a major confidence builder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His New Jersey teammates had no doubts. &#8220;That was Thompson,&#8221; said <strong>Jack Geoghegan<\/strong>. &#8220;One thing Bob Alexander constantly preached was that we were Family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Olympics were so much fun,&#8221; said Mann years later, &#8220;that I decided to keep swimming and prove my Olympic gold medal was not a fluke!&#8221;\u00a0 He went on in 1965 to win U.S. Indoor and Outdoor titles in both the 100 and 200 Back, setting a world&#8217;s best time and American record of 52.5 for the 100yd backstroke.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_362825\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-362825\" data-attachment-id=\"362825\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-1964-olympic-gold-medalist-thompson-mann\/mann-thompson-002\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mann-Thompson-002.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1376,912\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"thompson-mann-unc\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;thompson-mann-unc&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: International Swimming Hall of Fame&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mann-Thompson-002-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mann-Thompson-002-1024x679.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-362825\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mann-Thompson-002-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"thompson-mann-unc\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-362825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: International Swimming Hall of Fame<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After graduating from UNC Mann attended and graduated from the\u00a0Medical College of Virginia\u00a0in Richmond. He did his residency at the\u00a0University of California\u00a0in San Francisco. He followed in his father\u2019s footsteps as a doctor (internal medicine).<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the end of the story. \u00a0After retiring from his medical practice due to premature failing health, Dr. Mann was living alone.\u00a0 About two years ago, one of the his summer teammates, <strong>Rick Girdler<\/strong>, heard about Thompson&#8217;s condition. \u00a0Rick had swum collegiately for Villanova and he drove up to visit him in Massachusetts. \u00a0He was so shocked by Mann&#8217;s physical condition that he decided to do what he could to help his old friend. He never left him. \u00a0Girdler, who was retired and also living alone decided to move in with Thompson and care for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cT was the most caring, innocent, sweet man I&#8217;ve ever known,\u201d says Girdler.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s condition dramatically improved and Girdler describes the past two years as among the best of his life. Together, they had a lot of fun and gave a series of speeches entitled &#8220;The Joy of Friendship&#8221; and &#8220;The Power of Belief&#8221; to local community groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we are all amazed an astounded that T was able to hang on this long, always maintaining a positive outlook and attitude, regardless of the physical suffering he was enduring,&#8221; said summer teammate Dick McDonough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rick was a life saver,&#8221; says Geoghegan. &#8220;A true FRIEND!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mann was inducted into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ishof.org\/thompson-mann--(usa).html\">International Swimming Hall of Fame<\/a> in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson Mann will forever be remembered as a champion in life, both in and out of the pool and he will be missed by all who knew him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thompson Mann passed away on April 4, 2019 after suffering from\u00a0failing health for\u00a0several years. \u00a0He was 76\u00a0years old. 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