Allen Stack
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| Full name | Allen McIntyre Stack | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 23, 1928 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | September 12, 1999 (aged 71) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Yale University | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Allen McIntyre Stack (January 23, 1928 – September 12, 1999) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Stack won the gold medal in the men's 100-meter backstroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.[1] Four years later at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. He placed fourth in the final of the same event.[1]
Stack attended Yale University, where he swam for the Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1947 to 1949. He graduated from Yale with a bachelor's degree in 1949. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1951 to 1954, and graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1956. He practiced law in Honolulu, Hawaii until 1998.[2]
Stack was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1979.[3]
See also
[edit]- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of Yale University people
- World record progression 200 metres backstroke
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Allen Stack. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
- ^ Frank Litsky, "Allen Stack, 71, a Swimmer Who Broke 6 World Records," The New York Times (September 19, 1999). Retrieved October 3, 2012.
- ^ "Allen Stack (USA)". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
External links
[edit]- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Allen Stack". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020.
- Allen Stack (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame at the Wayback Machine (archived 2015-04-02)
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- 1928 births
- 1999 deaths
- American male backstroke swimmers
- Columbia Law School alumni
- Deerfield Academy alumni
- Lawyers from Hawaii
- Sportspeople from New Haven, Connecticut
- Yale Bulldogs men's swimmers
- 20th-century American lawyers
- Swimmers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1951 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1951 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- 20th-century American people
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