Gillian sterkel biography

  • Jill Ann Sterkel is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder, and water polo player.
  • Jill Ann Sterkel (born May 27, 1961) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder, and water polo player.
  • Biography.

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    At the 1975 Pan-American Games, Jill Sterkel won a gold medal in the relay and a silver in the individual 100m freestyle. At the 1976 Olympics she again won a relay gold, but fared less well in the individual freestyle events, placing seventh in the 100m final and losing out in the heats of the 200m free. Jill Sterkel won her only individual AAU title when she won the outdoor 100m freestyle in 1976, but she led her club to the AAU freestyle relay title, both indoors and out, that year. Sterkel swam for the El Monte AC with the same coach, Don LaMont, who trained Sandy Neilson.

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    • Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Summer Pan American Games (5–2–0 1975 Ciudad de México SWI gold: 4×100 m freestyle relay, silver: 100 m freestyle; 1979 San Juan SWI gold: 100 m butterfly, 4×100 m freestyle relay, and 4×100 m medley relay, silver: 100 m freestyle; 1983 Caracas SWI gold: 4×100 m freestyle relay)
    • Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Summer Universia

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      Jill Sterkel

      American swimmer (born 1961)

      Jill Ann Sterkel (born May 27, 1961) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder, and water polo player. Sterkel won four medals in three Olympic Games spanning twelve years from 1976 through 1988. She was the women's head coach of the Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team at the University of Texas at Austin from 1993 to 2006.[1]

      Early swimming

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      Sterkel was born in Hacienda Heights, California, where she swam for Glen A. Wilson High School, graduating in 1979. She began swimming with the highly competitive El Monte Aquatics Club around the age of 10 under Coach Don LaMont and continued through her High School Senior year, officially swimming for the Club outside of the High School swimming season. In March, 1979, in her High School Senior year, Sterkel set an American age group record of 49.55 seconds in 100-yard freestyle at the Southern California Invitational Swim Me

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      Jill Sterkel

      Gillian „Jill“ Sterkel (* 27. Mai1961 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) ist eine ehemalige Schwimmerin aus den Vereinigten Staaten. Sie gewann bei Olympischen Spielen zwei Gold- und zwei Bronzemedaillen, bei Weltmeisterschaften einmal Gold, zweimal Silber und zweimal Bronze sowie fünf Goldmedaillen bei Panamerikanischen Spielen.

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      Jill Sterkel begann 1966 okänt dem Schwimmsport. Nach fünf Jahren beim Trainer Don Garmon schwamm sie von 1971 bis 1979 für das El Monte Aquatics Team unter Trainer Don LaMont.[1]

      1975 nahm sie in Mexiko-Stadt erstmals an Panamerikanischen Spielen teil. Über 100 Meter Freistil gewann sie die Silbermedaille hinter ihrer Landsfrau Kim Peyton.[2] Peyton und Sterkel schwammen auch in der 4-mal-100-Meter-Freistilstaffel, die vor den Kanadierinnen gewann. Bei den Olympischen Spielen 1976 in Montreal siegten über 100 Meter Freistil zw