Lorraine Crapp

Lorraine Crapp

Personal information
Full name	Lorraine Joyce Crapp
Nationality	Australia
Born	1 October 1938 (1938-10-01) (age 73) Sydney, New South Wales
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	Freestyle
Medal record Women’s Swimming Competitor for  Australia Olympic Games Gold 1956 Melbourne 400 m freestyle Gold 1956 Melbourne 4×100 m freestyle Silver 1956 Melbourne 100 m freestyle Silver 1960 Rome 4×100 m freestyle British Empire and Commonwealth Games Gold 1954 Vancouver 100 m freestyle Gold 1954 Vancouver 400 m freestyle

Lorraine Crapp (born 17 October 1938) is a former Olympic swimming champion representing Australia. She competed in two Olympic Games — the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics. She won two Olympic gold medals in 1956. On the one night (25 August 1956), Crapp broke the world record for the 200 m and 400 m freestyle in the Tobruk Pool during the Townsville Australian National Training Camp.

Some time after her retirement, Crapp and her husband won the first prize in one of the Sydney Opera House Lotteries.^{[citation needed]}

References

• Andrews, Malcolm (2000). Australia at the Olympic Games. Sydney, New South Wales: ABC Books. pp. 106–107. ISBN 0-7333-0884-8. 
• Howell, Max (1986). Aussie Gold. 

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