What is Thompson Mann?
[[File:Bill Craig, Thompson Mann 1964.jpg|thumb|Mann (right) at the [[1964 Summer Olympics|1964 Olympics]]]] '''Harold Thompson Mann''' (December 1, 1942 – April 4, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] [[swimmer]]. He competed at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]] in [[Tokyo]]. At that Olympic Games, he won a gold medal for swimming the lead-off [[backstroke]] leg for the winning U.S. team in the 4 x 100-meter [[Medley (swimming)|medley relay]]. He and his relay teammates [[Bill Craig (swimmer)|Bill Craig]] (breaststroke), [[Fred Schmidt]] (butterfly) and [[Steve Clark (swimmer)|Steve Clark]] set a new world record of 3:58.4. Mann also set an [[individual]] world record in the 100-meter backstroke swimming his leg (59.6 seconds). He was born in [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]], [[Virginia]]. Mann died on April 4, 2019, at the age of 76.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/passages-1964-olympic-gold-medalist-thompson-mann/|title=Passages: 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist Thompson Mann, 76|work=Swimming World News|date=April 5, 2019|access-date=April 14, 2019|author=Wigo, Bruce}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * [https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/thompson-mann-1.html Thompson Mann] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418100800/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/thompson-mann-1.html |date=2020-04-18 }} at Sports-Reference.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Mann, Thompson}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Olympic gold medalists for the United States]] [[Category:American swimmers]] [[Category:People from Norfolk, Virginia]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Virginia]] {{US-bio-stub}}