Jack Taylor (swimmer)
Appearance
![]() Taylor (right) in 1950 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Jack George Neil Taylor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Akron, Ohio, U.S.[1] | January 31, 1931|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | May 30, 1955 near Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba | (aged 24)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | U.S. Navy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Ohio State University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jack George Neil Taylor (January 31, 1931 – May 30, 1955) was an American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, as a 21-year-old, he received a bronze medal for his third-place finish in the event final of the men's 100-meter backstroke.
Taylor was born in Akron, Ohio. He attended Ohio State University, where he swam for the Ohio State Buckeyes swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1950 to 1952. He later became a naval aviator in the United States Navy; he died practicing aircraft carrier landings near Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba at the age of 24.
He is a member of Ohio State University's sports hall of fame.[2]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jack Taylor (swimmer).
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jack Taylor". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- ^ OhioStateBuckeyes.com, Men's Varsity "O" Hall of Fame Archived 2012-11-16 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
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- American male backstroke swimmers
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- Swimmers from Akron, Ohio
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- United States Naval Aviators
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- United States Navy officers
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1955
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Cuba
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