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Women's Swimming Quiz

Latest: Tuesday September 19, 2000 05:17 AM

  Amy Van Dyken This woman is looking to add to an already impressive gold-medal haul. Al Bello/Allsport

1. Who was the first American woman to win four gold medals in one Olympics?
a. Shirley Babashoff
b. Janet Evans
c. Amy Van Dyken
d. Jan Henne

2. Which Australian swimmer set the world record in the 100-meter freestyle at the 1956 Melbourne Games - a record that stood until 1971 - and won gold again in the '60 Rome and '64 Tokyo Games?
a. Lorraine Crapp
b. Dawn Fraser
c. Faith Leetch
d. Sarah 'Fanny' Durack

3. Who was the East German swimmer and gold medalist in the 100 and 200-meters at the 1976 Montreal Games who married German swimming legend Roland Matthes?
a. Kornelia Ender
b. Barbara Krause
c. Kristin Otto
d. Caren Metschuck

4. Which Australian swimmer won three gold medals despite swimming 12 races and 4,200 meters over eight days, as a 15-year-old at the 1972 Munich Games?
a. Jan Henne
b. Dawn Fraser
c. Sandra Neilson
d. Shane Gould

5. What was unique about Silvia Poll Ahrens' silver-medal performance in the 200-meter freestyle at the 1988 Seoul Games?
a. It broke the Olympic record
b. It broke the World record
c. It earned Costa Rica its first Olympic medal
d. It was the second-fastest 200-meters in Olympic history

6. After earning a gold medal for Costa Rica at the 1996 Atlanta Games, Claudia Poll Ahrens, Silvia's sister, caused a minor controversy. How?
a. By denying to the press that she had a sister
b. Wearing a Coca-Cola logo on her swimming cap and on a T-shirt on the medal stand
c. Drinking a Coke on the starting block before the final
d. Holding up a political placard on the victory stand

7. Who was the first woman to win three individual gold medals in one Olympics?
a. Debbie Meyer
b. Dawn Fraser
c. Kornelia Ender
d. Michelle Smith

8. Which East German swimmer won an unprecedented six gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Games?
a. Kornelia Ender
b. Heike Friedrich
c. Kristin Otto
d. Petra Thumer

9. Which of the following made Hungarian Krisztina Egerszegi's 200-meter backstroke at the '96 Atlanta Games so memorable?
a. It made her the first woman to win five gold medals in individual events
b. It marked the second time in Olympic history a woman won the same event three times
c. Her 4.15-second margin of victory was the greatest in any women's 200-meter event
d. All of the above

10. Who became the first woman to win the 100 and 200-meter breaststroke at the same Olympics?
a. Amanda Beard
b. Penny Heyns
c. Agnes Kovacs
d. Samantha Riley

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