Albina Osipowich

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Olympic medal record
Women's swimming
Competitor for the United States
Gold	1928 Amsterdam	100 m freestyle
Gold	1928 Amsterdam	4×100 m freestyle relay

Albina Lucy Charlotte Osipowich Van Aiken (February 26, 1911 – June 6, 1964) was an American swimmer, with Lithuanian or Belarusian roots, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

In the 1928 Olympics she won the gold medals in the 100 m freestyle event and in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event.

She graduated from Pembroke College (Brown University) in Providence, Rhode Island in 1933.

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Records
Preceded by Eleanor Garatti (USA)	Women's 100 metre freestyle world record holder (long course) 25 August 1929 – 14 March 1930	Succeeded by Helene Madison (USA)

Olympic Champions in Women's 100 m Freestyle

1912: Fanny Durack
1920: Ethelda Bleibtrey
1924: Ethel Lackie
1928: Albina Osipowich
1932: Helene Madison
1936: Rie Mastenbroek
1948: Greta Andersen
1952: Katalin Szőke
1956: Dawn Fraser
1960: Dawn Fraser
1964: Dawn Fraser
1968: Jan Henne
1972: Sandra Neilson
1976: Kornelia Ender
1980: Barbara Krause
1984: Nancy Hogshead and Carrie Steinseifer
1988: Kristin Otto
1992: Zhuang Yong
1996: Le Jingyi
2000: Inge de Bruijn
2004: Jodie Henry
2008: Britta Steffen

Olympic Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1912: Great Britain (Moore, Fletcher, Speirs, Steer)
1920: USA (Woodridge, Schroth, Guest, Bleibtrey)
1924: USA (Donnelly, Ederle, Lackie, Wehselau)
1928: USA (Lambert, Osipowich, Saville, Norelius)
1932: USA (Helen Johns, Saville, McKim, Madison)
1936: Netherlands (Selbach, Wagner, Den Ouden, Mastenbroek)
1948: USA (Corridon, Kalama, Helser, Curtis)
1952: Hungary (I. Novák, Temes, E. Novák, Szőke)
1956: Australia (Fraser, Leech, Morgan, Crapp)
1960: USA (Spillane, Stobs, Wood, von Saltza)
1964: USA (Stouder, de Varona, Watson, Ellis)
1968: USA (Barkman, Gustavson, Pedersen, Henne)
1972: USA (Babashoff, Barkman, Kemp, Neilson)
1976: USA (Peyton, Sterkel, Babashoff, Boglioli)
1980: East Germany (Krause, Metschuck, Diers, Hülsenbeck)
1984: USA (Johnson, Steinseifer, Torres, Hogshead)
1988: East Germany (Otto, Meißner, Hunger, Stellmach)
1992: USA (Haislett, Martino, Thompson, Torres)
1996: USA (Martino, Van Dyken, Fox, Thompson)
2000: USA (Van Dyken, Shealy, Thompson, Torres)
2004: Australia (Mills, Lenton, Thomas, Henry)
2008: Netherlands (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis)

Persondata
Name	Osipowich, Albina
Alternative names
Short description	Swimmer
Date of birth	February 26, 1911
Place of birth
Date of death	June 6, 1964
Place of death

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