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USA Has Long History Of Olympic Backstrokers Adolph Kiefer Oldest Living

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By Chuck Kroll – Swimming World Historian.

On this day eighty years ago,18 year old Adolph Kiefer won the gold medal in the 100 meter Backstroke at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. His winning time of 1:05.9 was followed by silver medalist USA’s Albert Vandeweghe with a 1:07.7. Coming in fourth place at a 1:10.94 was their teammate Taylor Drysdale.

Though Adolph at age 98 no longer is actively involved in the sport or business side of swimming he still swims as regularly as possible and is always keen to ‘talk swimming’ with fans and reporters alike.

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