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Nancy Ellen Garapick (born September 24, 1961) is a former Canadian competition
swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...
, Olympic medallist, and former world record-holder. She won two bronze medals in the 100-metre backstroke and 200-metre backstroke at the
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in Montreal at the age of 14, behind two East German athletes, Ulrike Richter and Birgit Treiber, who later were confirmed to be longstanding participants of the East German doping scandal of the 1970s."She set a new Olympic record for the 100-metre backstroke during heats. Garapick's Olympic performances came on the heels of her world record performance on April 27, 1975 at the Eastern Canadian Swimming Championships in Brantford, Ontario, while a member of the Halifax Trojan Aquatic Club and coached by Nigel Kemp. It was there that she set a new World Record in the 200m backstroke with a time of 2:16:33 at the age of 13. In 2008, she was inducted into
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. The official ceremony took place November 5, 2008, in Toronto, Ontario. In 2018 she was named one of the greatest 15 athletes in Nova Scotia's history.


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* List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women) *
List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women) This is the complete list of women's World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming from 1973 to 2022. Medalists Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of victories in corresponding disciplines. 50 metre freestyle *Medals: 100 me ...
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World record progression 200 metres backstroke This is a history of the progression of the world record for the 200-meter backstroke event. It is a listing of the fastest-time-ever swum in the event, in both long course (50-meter) and short course (25-meter) swimming pools. These records ar ...


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* * * * * 1961 births Living people Canadian female backstroke swimmers Canadian female butterfly swimmers Canadian female freestyle swimmers Canadian female medley swimmers World record setters in swimming Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic bronze medalists in swimming Olympic swimmers of Canada Sportspeople from Halifax, Nova Scotia Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1979 Pan American Games World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada Pan American Games medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games {{Canada-Olympic-medalist-stub