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Medal record
Ethelda Bleibtrey
Women’s Swimming
Competitor for the United States
Olympic Games
Gold	1920 Antwerp	100 m freestyle
Gold	1920 Antwerp	300 m freestyle
Gold	1920 Antwerp	4x100 m freestyle

Ethelda Bleibtrey (February 27, 1902 – May 6, 1978) was a swimmer from the United States notable for winning three gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.

Bleibtrey started swimming to help recover from polio, which she caught in 1917. In 1919, she was arrested for "nude swimming" — she removed her stockings at a pool where it was forbidden to bare "the lower female extremities for public bathing."

She was born in Waterford, New York, and died in West Palm Beach, Florida.

References

Conner, Floyd (2002). The Olympic's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Gold Medal Gaffes, Improbable Triumphs, and Other Oddities, Brassey's. pp.34. ISBN 1574884131.
"Ethelda Bleibtrey". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved on 2007-05-24.
"Ethelda Bleibtrey". International Swimming Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2007-05-24.
"This day in sports: Aug 25". USA Today (1999-08-25). Retrieved on 2007-05-24.
Ramsey, Russell W.. "Get in the swim! You'll be in good company", Vibrant Life. Retrieved on 24 May 2007.

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Olympic Champions in Women's 100 m Freestyle

1912: Fanny Durack | 1920: Ethelda Bleibtrey | 1924: Ethel Lackie | 1928: Albina Osipowich | 1932: Helene Madison | 1936: Rie Mastenbroek | 1948: Greta Andersen | 1952: Katalin Szőke | 1956: Dawn Fraser | 1960: Dawn Fraser | 1964: Dawn Fraser | 1968: Jan Henne | 1972: Sandra Neilson | 1976: Kornelia Ender | 1980: Barbara Krause | 1984: Nancy Hogshead and Carrie Steinseifer | 1988: Kristin Otto | 1992: Zhuang Yong | 1996: Le Jingyi | 2000: Inge de Bruijn | 2004: Jodie Henry | 2008: Britta Steffen

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

1912: USA (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, Szöke) | 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) |

Records
Preceded by Fanny Durack (AUS)	Women's 100 metre freestyle world record holder (long course) August 25, 1920 – June 30, 1923	Succeeded by Gertrude Ederle (USA)

Persondata
NAME	Bleibtrey, Ethelda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Usanian Olympic swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Waterford, N.Y
DATE OF DEATH	May 6, 1978
PLACE OF DEATH	West Palm Beach, Fla.

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