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Full name | Jed Richard Graef | |||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||
Born | Montclair, New Jersey, U.S. [1] | May 1, 1942|||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | |||||||||||
Weight | 201 lb (91 kg) | |||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||
Club | North Jersey Swim Association | |||||||||||
College team | Princeton University | |||||||||||
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Jed Richard Graef (born May 1, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Graef grew up in Verona, New Jersey and learned the backstroke while competing with the Montclair YMCA swim team. [2] He attended Princeton University, where he was captain of the Princeton Tigers swim team in 1964. [3] Graef won the gold medal in the men's 200-meter backstroke at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. [4]
Graef defended a PhD in psychology and is considered as a prominent authority in sports psychology. [1] He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1988. [5]