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Full name | Daniel Lee Harrigan | |||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Dan" | |||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
Born | South Bend, Indiana, U.S. [1] | October 29, 1955|||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) [1] | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) [1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Michiana Marlins | |||||||||||||||||
College team | North Carolina State University | |||||||||||||||||
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Daniel Lee Harrigan (born October 29, 1955) is an American former backstroke swimmer. At the 1975 Pan American Games he won the 200 m backstroke event, but also contracted hepatitis and had to stop training for several months. He managed to recover by the 1976 Olympics and won there a bronze medal in the same event. [1] [2]
Harrigan studied architecture at North Carolina State University, [1] where he swam for the NC State Wolfpack swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) competition from 1973 to 1976.