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Johnny Weissmuller was an American Olympic swimmer, water polo player and actor. He set world records alongside winning five gold medals in the Olympics. He won the 100m freestyle and the 4 × 200 m relay team event in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Weissmuller also won gold in the 400m freestyle, as well as a bronze medal in the water polo competition…
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entertainment · American swimmer, water-polo player, and actor (1904–1984) · film actor · swimmer · actor · water polo player · television actor · also Johnny Weissmuller, Peter Johann Weißmüller, Petros János Weiszmüller, Peter John Weissmuller, Weissmuller
Born 2 June 1904 · Died 20 January 1984 · Q151284
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Yahoo! Sports: Tarzan at the Olympics: Johnny Weissmuller won 3 gold medals at the 1924 Paris Games
Yahoo! Sports: A century ago, Johnny Weissmuller was the Michael Phelps of the Paris Olympics
Swimming World: A Century Later, Johnny Weissmuller – Champion Ape Man – Remains An Iconic Figure
Swimming World: Swimming World Presents “Takeoff To Tokyo Series – Johnny Weissmuller: A Star of Swimming… And Hollywood”
Los Angeles Times: Did Johnny Weissmuller use a fake identity so he could represent the U.S. in the 1924 Olympics?
UPI: Johnny Weissmuller Jr. dead at 65
Weissmuller died of pulmonary edema at the age of 79
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Died 1984-01-20.
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Entered the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, for several weeks before moving with his last wife, Maria, to Acapulco, Mexico, the location of his last Tarzan movie
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Weissmuller suffered a series of strokes
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Weissmuller broke both his hip and leg, marking the beginning of years of declining health
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Weissmuller was awarded the George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film
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Was selected by the Associated Press as the greatest swimmer of the first half of the 20th century
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With his third wife, Beryl, Weissmuller had three children: Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. (1940–2006), Wendy Anne Weissmuller (born 1942), and Heidi Elizabeth Weissmuller (1944–1962), who was killed in a car crash.
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Aged 36, but this result was discounted, as he was competing as a professional
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Won the Swimming Olympics Gold 100m Freestyle with United States Swimming (1928).
Won the Swimming Olympics Gold 4x200m Freestyle with United States Swimming (1928).
16 children, 10 women, and 1 man drowned when the Favorite, a small excursion boat cruising from Lincoln Park to Municipal Pier (Navy Pier), capsized half a mile off North Avenue in a sudden, heavy squall
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During training for the Chicago Marathon, when Weissmuller saved 11 people from drowning after a boat accident
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Weissmuller set a new world record of 51
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Won the Swimming Olympics Gold 4x200m Freestyle with United States Swimming (1924).
Won the Swimming Olympics Gold 400m Freestyle with United States Swimming (1924).
Won the Swimming Olympics Gold 100m Freestyle with United States Swimming (1924).
Weissmuller broke Duke Kahanamoku's world record in the 100-meter freestyle, swimming it in 58
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Weissmuller swam one of first meets, entering and winning four Amateur Athletic Union races
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In Szabadfalva, in the Kingdom of Hungary into an ethnically Banat Swabian family
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Born 1904-06-02.
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