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Full name | Raymond Comstock Thorne | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Ray" | ||||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||||
Born | Chicago, Illinois | April 29, 1887||||||||||||||
Died | January 10, 1921 Los Angeles, California | (aged 33)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
Club | Chicago Athletic Association | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Raymond Comstock Thorne (April 29, 1887 – January 10, 1921) was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] In the 1904 Olympics he won a silver medal as a member of American 4×50 yard freestyle relay team and was sixth in the 50 yards swimming. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in a car crash in Los Angeles, California. [2]