Catie Ball
Catherine Northcutt Ball Condon (born September 30, 1951), née Catherine Northcutt Ball, is a former American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in multiple events. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. 4x100-meter medley relay team. Ball is a former world record holder in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke events, and is remembered as a teenage star who was the dominant female breaststroke swimmer of her generation.
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