John Devitt

✶February 4, 1937

†August 17, 2023

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John Thomas Devitt, AM was an Australian sprint freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won a gold medal in the 100-metre freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. He won in controversial circumstances, being awarded the gold medal despite the timekeepers recording a slower time than the American silver medallist Lance Larson. He also claimed a gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay.

Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder

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Biography from the article John Devitt on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.