{"id":468304,"date":"2021-04-04T20:48:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=468304"},"modified":"2021-04-04T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:48:18","slug":"passages-suzanne-zimmerman-1948-olympic-silver-medalist-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-suzanne-zimmerman-1948-olympic-silver-medalist-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Passages: Suzanne Zimmerman, 1948 Olympic Silver Medalist, 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Suzanne Zimmerman Edwards<\/strong>, who won a silver medal in the women\u2019s 100 backstroke at the 1948 Olympics, <a href=\"https:\/\/obits.oregonlive.com\/obituaries\/oregon\/obituary.aspx?n=suzanne-zimmerman-edwards&amp;pid=198231587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died on March 14<\/a>. She was 95 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman was born in Lake Grove, Oregon, in 1925. She attended West Linn High School and Willamette University. At age 15, she joined the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ishof.org\/jack-cody--(usa).html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coached by International Swimming Hall of Famer<\/a> <strong>Jack Cody.<\/strong> The group, known as the \u201cCody Kids\u201d won three national team titles, 42 individual national championships and 16 relay titles across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman won 15 national titles in an eight-year career. The high point came in 1948 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympic.org\/london-1948\/swimming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at the London Olympics<\/a>, for which Zimmerman qualified in the 100 backstroke. She went 1:16.8 in prelims and semifinals, taking third and second, respectively, at those levels.<\/p>\n<p>In the final, Zimmerman went 1:16.0 to take the silver medal. She was beaten by <strong>Karen Margrethe Harup <\/strong>of Denmark<strong>,<\/strong> who set an Olympic record of 1:15.5 in the semifinals and broke it in finals at 1:14.4.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman and her husband Gordon, who predeceased her, traveled the world before she settled in the Portland area to start a family in 1974. She is survived by two children and two grandchildren. She was inducted to the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzanne Zimmerman Edwards, who won a silver medal in the women\u2019s 100 backstroke at the 1948 Olympics, died on March 14. She was 95 years of age. 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