Susan Rapp
Susan Gerard Rapp von der Lippe (born July 5, 1965), née Susan Gerard Rapp, is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
She attended Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Pacific-10 Conference competition.
Rapp represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She won a silver medal for her second-place performance in the women's 200-meter breaststroke, finishing with a time of 2:31.15. She earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4x100-meter medley relay. Individually, she also finished seventh in the final of the women's 100-meter breaststroke, recording a time of 1:11.45.
Four years later at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, Rapp competed in the B Final of the women's 200-meter breaststroke, finishing thirteenth overall with a time of 2:32.90.
At the age of 40, von der Lippe qualified for the 2008 United States Olympic Trials in the 100-meter breaststroke.
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