Judith Roberts (swimmer)

Judith Roberts

Personal information

Full name

Judith Theresa Roberts

National team

United States

Born

May 15, 1934
Dallas, Texas

Died

2016-11-22

Sport

Swimming

Strokes

Freestyle

Club

Indianapolis Athletic Club

Medal record

Women's swimming
Representing the United States
Pan American Games
	1955 Mexico City	4×100 m freestyle

Judith Theresa Roberts (born May 15, 1934) is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.^[1] Roberts competed in the women's 100-meter freestyle, advanced to the semifinals, and finished fourteenth overall with a time of 1:08.2.^[1]^[2]

Three years later at the 1955 Pan American Games in Mexico City, she won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay.^[1]^[3] Her American relay teammates at the Pan American Games included Carolyn Green, Wanda Werner and Gretchen Kluter.^[1]^[3]

References

1 2 3 4 Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Judith Roberts. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games, Women's 100 metres Freestyle. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
1 2 HickokSports.com, Sports History, Pan American Games Women's Swimming Medalists. Retrieved November 26, 2012.

1952 USA Olympic swimming team

Men's Team	Dick Cleveland Frank Dooley Ronald Gora Jerry Holan Burwell Jones Ford Konno Jimmy McLane Wayne Moore Monte Nitzkowski Yoshi Oyakawa Clarke Scholes Don Sheff Allen Stack Bowen Stassforth Jack Taylor Wally Wolf Bill Woolsey

Women's Team	Jody Alderson Julia Cornell Mary Freeman Carolyn Green Evelyn Kawamoto Jackie LaVine Delia Meulenkamp Coralie O'Connor Gail Peters Judith Roberts Della Sehorn Barbara Stark Marilee Stepan

Pan American Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1951: United States (Green, Geary, LaVine, Brey)
1955: United States (Werner, Green, Kluter, Roberts)
1959: United States (Botkin, Spillane, Stobs, Von Saltza)
1963: United States (De Varona, Stouder, McCleary, Norton)
1967: United States (Fordyce, Carpinelli, Gustavson, Kruse)
1971: United States (Neilson, Fordyce, McKitrick, Skrifvars)
1975: United States (Heddy, Brown, Sterkel, Peyton)
1979: United States (Elkins, Caulkins, Sterkel, Woodhead)
1983: United States (Sterkel, Torres, Wayte, Steinseifer)
1987: United States (Coffin, Thompson, Linke, Steinseifer)
1991: United States (Oesting, Buckovich, Jacob, Tappin)
1995: United States (Martino, Van Dyken, Farella, Teuscher)
1999: Canada (Deglau, Limpert, Evanetz, Nicholls)
2003: United States (Weir, Swindle, Lanne, Shealy)
2007: United States (Smit, Woodward, Kukors, Correia)
2011: United States (Kennedy, Pelton, Kendall, Erndl)
2015: Canada (Mainville, Williams, Savard, van Landeghem)

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