Sharon Marie Stouder (November 9, 1948 – June 23, 2013), also known by her married name Sharon Stouder Clark, was an American compe*ion swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in four events.

As a 15-year-old, she won three gold medals and one silver at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, *an. She won the women's 100-meter butterfly, and was a member of the winning U.S. teams in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay and the women's 4×100-meter medley relay. She also took second place in the women's 100-meter freestyle, finishing behind Australian Dawn Fraser, for a total of four medals.

Stouder swam sprint butterfly and sprint freestyle. She was the second woman in history to go under the one-minute barrier in the 100-meter freestyle, the event she got her silver medal in at the 1964 Olympics. In 1964 she twice broke the world record in the women's 200-meter butterfly.

She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1972. Stouder died June 23, 2013; she was 64 years old.

See also

• List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
• List of Stanford University people
• World record progression 100 metres butterfly
• World record progression 200 metres butterfly
• World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay
• World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay

References

External links

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et:al. "Sharon Stouder". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
• Sharon Stouder (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame
• Image of U.S. Olympic swimmers Cathy Ferguson, Sharon Stouder and Claudia Kolb at LA Swim Stadium, California, 1964. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.