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American swimmer (born 1944)
Susan Christina von Saltza (born January 13, 1944), also known by her married name Christina Olmstead , is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in four events.
As an age group swimmer, von Saltza swam for coach
George Haines '
Santa Clara Swim Club and led the club to multiple team championships at the nationals, in addition to winning nineteen individual
Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles.
[1] She was featured on the July 21, 1958 cover of
Sports Illustrated magazine as the "No. 1 U.S. Swimmer at the Age of 14."
[2]
At the age of 16, she set the world record in the 400-meter freestyle at the U.S. Olympic trials, and proceeded to win four medals at the
1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
[1] Individually, she won a gold medal in the
women's 400-meter freestyle , and a silver in the
100-meter freestyle .
[1] She won two more gold medals as a member of the winning U.S. teams in the
women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay and
4×100-meter medley relay .
[1] Both U.S. relay teams set new world records in their respective events.
[1]
A year prior to the Olympics, von Saltza won five gold medals at the
1959 Pan American Games . Her wins came in the 100-, 200-, and 400-meter freestyle, as well as the 4×100-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter medley relays.
Von Saltza later attended
Stanford University , and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Asian history. Stanford, like most major American universities, had no women's swimming and diving team prior to the enactment of
Title IX , and von Saltza effectively retired from competition swimming after the 1960 Olympics.
Von Saltza is properly styled "the Baroness von Saltza," as her grandfather, Count
Philip von Saltza , immigrated to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, and she is still recognized by her title in the Who's Who of Swedish Nobility .
Von Saltza was inducted into the
International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1966.
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