Lorraine Crapp
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Lorraine Crapp

Personal information
Full nameLorraine Joyce Crapp
NationalityAustralia
StrokesFreestyle
Birth dateOctober 1, 1938(age 72)
Birth placeSydney, New South Wales
Height1.67 m (5 ft 5.8 in)

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Lorraine Crapp (born October 17, 1938 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a former Olympic swimming champion representing Australia. She competed in two Olympic Games — the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Some time after her retirement, Crapp and her husband won the first prize in one of the Sydney Opera House Lotteries.




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Medal Record
Women’s Swimming
Competitor for Australia
Olympic Games
Gold1956 Melbourne400 m freestyle
Gold1956 Melbourne4x100 m freestyle
Silver1956 Melbourne100 m freestyle
Silver1960 Rome4x100 m freestyle
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Gold1954 Vancouver100 m freestyle
Gold1954 Vancouver400 m freestyle

Olympic Champions in Women's 400 m Freestyle

1920: (300 m) Ethelda Bleibtrey * 1924: Martha Norelius * 1928: Martha Norelius * 1932: Helene Madison * 1936: Rie Mastenbroek * 1948: Ann Curtis * 1952: Valéria Gyenge * 1956: Lorraine Crapp * 1960: Christina von Saltza * 1964: Virginia Duenkel * 1968: Debbie Meyer * 1972: Shane Gould * 1976: Petra Thümer * 1980: Ines Diers * 1984: Tiffany Cohen * 1988: Janet Evans * 1992: Dagmar Hase * 1996: Michelle Smith * 2000: Brooke Bennett * 2004: Laure Manaudou * 2008: Rebecca Adlington |

Olympic Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1912: GBR (Moore, Fletcher, Speirs, Steer) * 1920: USA (Woodridge, Schroth, Guest, Bleibtrey) * 1924: USA (Donnelly, Ederle, Lackie, Wehselau) * 1928: USA (Lambert, Osipowich, Saville, Norelius) * 1932: USA (Helen Johns, Saville, McKim, Madison) * 1936: NED (Selbach, Wagner, den Ouden, Mastenbroek) * 1948: USA (Corridon, Kalama, Helser, Curtis) * 1952: HUN (Novák, Temes, Novák, Szőke) * 1956: AUS (Fraser, Leech, Morgan, Crapp) * 1960: USA (Spillane, Stobs, Wood, von Saltza) * 1964: USA (Stouder, de Varona, Watson, Ellis) * 1968: USA (Barkman, Gustavson, Pedersen, Henne) * 1972: USA (Babashoff, Barkman, Kemp, Neilson) * 1976: USA (Peyton. Sterkel, Babashoff, Boglioli) * 1980: GDR (Krause, Metschuck, Diers, Hülsenbeck) * 1984: USA (Johnson, Steinseifer, Torres, Hogshead) * 1988: GDR (Otto, Meißner, Hunger, Manuela Stellmach) * 1992: USA (Haislett, Martino, Thompson, Torres) * 1996: USA (Martino, Van Dyken, Fox, Thompson) * 2000: USA (Van Dyken, Shealy, Thompson, Torres) * 2004: AUS (Mills, Lenton, Thomas, Henry) * 2008: NED (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis)

Commonwealth Champions in Women's 100 m Freestyle

1930: Joyce Cooper (ENG) * 1934: Phyllis Dewar (CAN) * 1938: Evelyn de Lacy (AUS) * 1950: Marjorie McQuade (AUS) * 1954: Lorraine Crapp (AUS) * 1958 - 1962: Dawn Fraser (AUS) * 1966: Marion Lay (CAN) * 1970: Angela Coughlan (CAN) * 1974: Sonya Gray (AUS) * 1978: Carol Klimpel (CAN) * 1982: June Croft (ENG) * 1986: Jane Kerr (CAN) * 1990: Karen van Wirdum (AUS) * 1994: Karen Pickering (ENG) * 1998: Sue Rolph (ENG) * 2002: Jodie Henry (AUS) * 2006: Lisbeth Lenton (AUS)

Commonwealth Champions in Women's 400 m Freestyle

1930: Joyce Cooper (ENG) * 1934: Phyllis Dewar (CAN) * 1938: Dorothy Green (AUS) * 1950: Joan Harrison (SAF) * 1954: Lorraine Crapp (AUS) * 1958: Ilsa Konrads (AUS) * 1962: Dawn Fraser (AUS) * 1966: Kathy Wainwright (AUS) * 1970: Karen Moras (AUS) * 1974: Jenny Turrall (AUS) * 1978 - 1982: Tracey Wickham (AUS) * 1986: Sarah Hardcastle (ENG) * 1990 - 1994: Hayley Lewis (AUS) * 1998: Susie O'Neill (AUS) * 2002: Rebecca Cooke (ENG) * 2006: Caitlin McClatchey (SCO)



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