Douglas_Northway
Doug Northway
American swimmer
Douglas Dale Northway (born April 28, 1955) is an American former swimmer, who represented the United States at two consecutive Olympic Games.
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| Full name | Douglas Dale Northway | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Doug" | ||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1955-04-28) April 28, 1955 (age 69) Ontario, California | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 160 lb (73 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Oasis Aquatic Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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- As a 17-year-old at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Northway received a bronze medal for his third-place performance in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle (16:09.25).[1]
- Four years later at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, he swam for the gold medal-winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay.[1]
He did not receive a medal for his 1976 relay effort, however, because only relay swimmers who competed in the event final were medal-eligible under the rules then in effect.
Plead Guilty to "attempted child molestation" in April 1997, "Doug Northway, 42, was charged in January with two counts of child molestation for allegedly molesting the girl in the summer of 1995. Those charges were dropped after he pleaded guilty in April to attempting to molest the girl, court records show."[2]
- Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Doug Northway Archived 2012-01-27 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
- "Olympian pleads guilty to attempted molesting - Tucson Citizen Morgue, Part 2 (1993-2009)". tucsoncitizen.com. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Doug Northway". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-01-27.
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