In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records.
Babashoff is perhaps best remembered for swimming the anchor leg on the gold-medal Winning 4x100-me. female Olympian and, in her prime, was widely considered to be the greatest female swimmer on the planet.
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Prior to the 1990s, she was the most successful U.
She also won the 1975 world championship in both the 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle.
She won a Gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay in both the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, and four silver medals in the 4 x 100 meter medley relay and the 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle.
In her extraordinary career, she set six world records and thirty-seven national records and earned a total of eight individual Olympic medals.
About the Author: Shirley Babashoff is an American Olympic champion swimmer.
From her difficult childhood and beginnings as a determined young athlete growing up in Southern California in the 1960s, through her triumphs as the greatest female amateur swimmer in the world, Babashoff tells her story in the same unflinching manner that made her both the most dominant female swimmer of her time and one of the most controversial athletes in Olympic history.
Once celebrated as America\'s golden girl, Babashoff was accused of poor sportsmanship and vilified by the press with a new nickname: "Surly Shirley." Making Waves displays the remarkable strength and resilience that made Babashoff such a dynamic champion.
Hopes were high that she would become "the female Mark Spitz." All of that changed once Babashoff questioned the shocking masculinity of the swimmers on the East German women\'s team.
Heading into the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Babashoff was pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated and followed closely by the media. female Olympian and, in her prime, was widely considered to be the greatest female swimmer in the world.
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Prior to the 1990s, she was the most successful U.
In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records
