Elizabeth Ryan (swimmer)

Elizabeth Ryan
Personal information
Full name	Elizabeth M. Ryan
National team	United States
Born	(1923-01-04)January 4, 1923 New York, New York
Died	May 1998 (aged 75) Brooklyn, New York
Sport
Sport	Swimming

Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Women's Swimming Association

Elizabeth M. Ryan (January 4, 1923 – May 1998) was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. As a 13-year-old, Ryan swam for the third-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, helping the Americans qualify for the event final. Under the 1936 Olympic swimming rules, she did not receive a medal because she did not swim in the final.

External links

Elizabeth Ryan – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com

1936 USA Olympic swimming team

Men's Team	Jim Cristy Taylor Drysdale Peter Fick Ralph Flanagan Ralph Gilman John Higgins Arthur Highland Charles Hutter Jack Kasley Ray Kaye Adolph Kiefer Arthur Lindegren John Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf

Women's Team	Alice Bridges Iris Cummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge Mary Lou Petty Katherine Rawls Elizabeth Ryan Dorothy Schiller Lenore Wingard

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