Susan von der Lippe
![]() Rapp in 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Susan von der Lippe | |||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Fort Carson, Colorado, U.S. | July 5, 1965|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 146 lb (66 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Susan von der Lippe (née Susan Gerard Rapp on July 5, 1965) is an American competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and Masters world record-holder in multiple events.
She attended Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Pacific-10 Conference competition.
Rapp first qualified for the 1980 Olympic games, but was unable to compete due to the United States-led boycott of the Olympic games hosted by the Soviet Union. Four years later at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she had significant success. She won a silver medal for her second-place performance in the women's 200-meter breaststroke, finishing with a time of 2:31.15. She earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter medley relay. Individually, she also finished seventh in the final of the women's 100-meter breaststroke, recording a time of 1:11.45.[1]
Four years later at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, Rapp competed in the B Final of the women's 200-meter breaststroke, finishing thirteenth overall with a time of 2:32.90.[1]
At the age of 42, von der Lippe qualified for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100-meter breaststroke and 100-meter butterfly.[2]
As of 2014[update], von der Lippe holds 61 individual U.S. Masters Swimming pool records, across the 35–39, 40–44 and 45–49 age groups.[3] She holds Masters World records in breaststroke, butterfly, individual medley in the 40–44 and 45–49 age groups.[4][5]
See also
[edit]- List of Masters world records in swimming
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of Stanford University people
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Susan Rapp. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
- ^ "Von der Lippe Is Still Making a Splash at 42". NY Times. May 11, 2008. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
- ^ "Susan G Von der Lippe – USMS Swimmer".
- ^ "FINA WORLD MASTERS RECORDS – SHORT COURSE METERS AS OF AUG 31, 2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 6, 2014.
- ^ "FINA WORLD MASTERS RECORDS – LONG COURSE METERS AS OF AUG 31, 2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 6, 2014.
External links
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- Susan von der Lippe at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Susan von der Lippe at Olympedia
- Susan von der Lippe at Olympics.com
- Susan von der Lippe at World Aquatics
- 1965 births
- Living people
- American female breaststroke swimmers
- American female medley swimmers
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- People from Eden Prairie, Minnesota
- Sportspeople from Hennepin County, Minnesota
- Stanford Cardinal women's swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games
- American swimming Olympic medalist stubs
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in swimming