{"id":363324,"date":"2019-04-09T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=363324"},"modified":"2019-04-09T06:37:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:37:46","slug":"swimming-world-presents-did-you-know-fun-facts-about-ishof-masters-hall-of-famers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-world-presents-did-you-know-fun-facts-about-ishof-masters-hall-of-famers\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming World Presents “Did You Know? Fun Facts About ISHOF+Masters Hall of Famers”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did You Know? <\/span><\/h1>\n

Fun Facts About ISHOF\/Masters Hall of Famers<\/span><\/h2>\n

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There are four honorees of the International Swimming Hall of Fame who also have been inducted into the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame later in their careers.<\/p>\n

SANDY NEILSON-BELL
\n<\/strong>USA <\/span>(1986\/2005)<\/span><\/em>
\nSandy Neilson won three gold medals at the 1972 Olympics in Munich when she was just 16. After swimming in college at UCSB, she retired from the sport. But she returned nine years later as a Masters swimmer after taking a job coaching the Industry Hills (Calif.) Masters and seeing how much fun her swimmers were having.<\/p>\n

Neilson-Bell was the first female Masters swimmer to compete in the U.S. Olympic Trials at ages 32 (1988) and 36 (1992). Her fifth-place time in the 50 free in 1988 would have finaled at the Seoul Olympics. When she was 40, she missed qualifying for the 1996 Trials by 9-hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n

MARIA LENK
\n<\/strong><\/span>BRAZIL, <\/span>USA (1988\/2008)<\/span><\/em>
\nIn 1932 at the age of 17, Maria Lenk became the first South American woman to participate in the Summer Olympics. She again represented Brazil in 1936, where she also was a pioneer in the evolution of the butterfly stroke. In 1939, she became the first Brazilian to set a world record in swimming (200 meter breast, 2:56.9).<\/p>\n

As a Masters swimmer for both Brazil and the USA, she set 37 Masters world records in all strokes and the individual medley\u201417 LC\/20 SC.<\/p>\n

She also ranked in the Top 10 for 20 years until she died at the age of 92 in 2007, a year before she was inducted posthumously into the Masters Swimming Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

To learn more fun facts about our Hall of Famers Sandy, Maria, Jeff Farrell, and Yoshi Oyakawa,<\/strong>
\ncheck out the April 2019<\/a> issue of Swimming World Magazine<\/em>, available now!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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