Olympic Games Gold Medalist Athlete. A competition swimmer, she was a member of the United States Olympic Swimming team that participated in the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles, California. There, she won three Gold Medals, and joined gymnast Romeo Neri of Italy as the most successful athlete of the Games. Prior to the Olympics, she was a champion amateur, breaking sixteen world swimming records between 1930 and 1931 in the Amateur Athletic Union. At Los Angeles, she won her first Gold Medal in the Women's 100-Meter Freestyle event, setting a then-Olympic record of 1:06.8, and beating out The Netherlands' Willy den Ouden and American teammate Eleanor Garatti. She won her next Gold Medal in the Women's 4x100-Metre Freestyle Relay event, joining with teammates Josephine McKim, Helen Johns and Garatti to hold off the team from The Netherlands and set an World Record with a time of 4:38.0. Lastly, she won her third Gold Medal in the Women's 400-Metre Freestyle event, beating teammate Lenore Kight and setting yet another World Record with a time of 5:28.5. However, the victory was so close over Kight that Olympic officials scrutinized the finish for fifteen minutes before declaring a winner. When she returned home to Seattle, Washington, she was given a ticker tape parade. She would appear at minor swimming events for pay, and appeared in two Hollywood motion pictures, "The Human Fish" and "The Warrior's Husband". Because of this, she was deemed no longer an amateur, a was ruled ineligible for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. Her later career saw her work various jobs, including as a swimming instructor. She passed away at age fifty-seven in 1970. In 1966 she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and was given the same honor posthumously when she was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in 1992. In 1990 she was commemorated on a 25-cent United States Postage Stamp.