Gloria Callen
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Born | (1923-12-21)December 21, 1923 Freeport, New York, United States |
Died | September 2, 2016(2016-09-02) (aged 92) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Gloria Marie Callen (December 21, 1923 – September 2, 2016) was an American backstroke swimmer.[1] She was the 1942 Associated Press Athlete of the Year.[2]
Biography
Callen was born in 1923 in Freeport, New York.[3] She married Herbert Erskine Jones Jr. in 1944.[4]
Callen set 35 American records and one world record in swimming, and won 13 American championships. Due to World War II, she was never able to compete in world championships or Olympic Games, even though she qualified for the 1940 Summer Olympics. She quit swimming when she went to college at Barnard College and joined the American Women's Voluntary Services.[5]
Callen was one in a row of glamorous swimming champions, and was voted one of America's 13 best-dressed women by the New York's Fashion Academy.[5]
Honors
- 1942: Associated Press Athlete of the Year[2]
- 1976: inducted in the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame[6]
- 1984: International Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Gloria Callen Jones". Barlow Bonsall. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
- ^ a b USA swimming awards table. usaswimming.org
- ^ "Gloria Callen Jones".
- ^ Marriage announcement in Time magazine, October 23, 1944
- ^ a b c International Swimming Hall of Fame biography
- ^ Inductee list of the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame
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- 1939: Alice Marble
- 1940: Alice Marble
- 1941: Betty Hicks
- 1942: Gloria Callen
- 1943: Patty Berg
- 1944: Ann Curtis
- 1945: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- 1946: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- 1947: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- 1948: Fanny Blankers-Koen
- 1949: Marlene Hagge
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- 2016: Simone Biles
- 2017: Katie Ledecky
- 2018: Serena Williams
- 2019: Simone Biles
- 2020: Naomi Osaka
- 2021: Candace Parker
- 2022: Katie Ledecky
- 2023: Simone Biles
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