Richard Adolph Blick (born July 29, 1940) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He competed in North Central College Swim Club. He later competed at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where he won a gold medal as a member of the first-place U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay.
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| Full name | Richard Adolph Blick | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Dick" | ||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 29, 1940 Los Angeles, California | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 192 lb (87 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | North Central Swim Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | North Central College | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Blick taught math and physical education for a number of years at Lynbrook High School in Cupertino California and in Kingsburg, California. He also was the principal in the 80s at Los Gatos Christian; he is now retired with his wife, Shirley, in San Jose, California.[1]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy– Swimming" Archived 2007-09-04 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 30, 2008)
External links edit
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dick Blick". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2009-06-01.
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