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Eleanor Grace Theresa Holm (December 6, 1912 [ 2 ][ 3 ] – January 31, 2004) was an American competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. An Olympian in 1928 and 1932, Holm was expelled from the 1936 Summer Olympics team by Avery Brundage under controversial circumstances.
Eleanor Holm was a fast swimmer, a woman who broke six world records and won 29 US backstroke titles. She also won the 100m backstroke title at the 1932 Olympic Games - but she will be remembered for
16 sie 2018 · Competitive swimmer Eleanor Holm, in her day, was as dominant an athlete as Serena Williams or Katie Ledecky. In 1932, she captured gold in the 100-meter backstroke at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and set no less than seven world backstroke records during her career.
Eleanor Holm would never have become a celebrity beyond the sport of swimming, in which she was Olympic 100 metres backstroke champion in 1932, but for her excessive drinking while on the liner taking
By June 1932 she held unofficial world records in two backstroke events, and America had begun to take notice: "Eleanor Holm, whose swimming has not yet marred her pretty freshness with big...
American swimmer who won 35 U.S. championships but is most remembered for her dismissal from the 1936 Olympics. Name variations: Eleanor Holm Jarrett. Born Eleanor Grace Holm on December 6, 1913, in Brooklyn, New York; youngest of seven children of Charlotte (Long) and Franklin Holm; married Art Jarrett (a band leader and singer), in 1933 ...
Aby dostać się do Niemiec sportowcy musieli popłynąć statkiem SS Manhattan. Eleanor otoczona grupą jej wielbicieli oraz dziennikarzy chciała zamówić sobie kajutę w pierwszej klasie a nie na trzecim pokładzie tak jak reszta zespołu.
