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WSC HISTORY
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JOHN MURPHY -- Hinsdale Central |
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A seven-time
state champion in swimming, Murphy would set a pair of world records and win
a gold and bronze Olympic medal. A versatile swimmer, John won the
100-yard backstroke at the IHSA state finals in 1969, 1970 and 1971.
Murphy captured a first place finish in the state meet 200-yard individual
medley in 1971, and was a part of three straight Red Devils 200-yard medley
relay championship teams from 1969 to 1971. Only months after his
senior year in high school, Murphy won the 100-meter backstroke at the 1971
Pan-American Games. John would attend Indiana University where he
would swim on three NCAA champion relay teams and win a total of seven Big
Ten titles. As a 19-year-old at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich,
Murphy earned a bronze medal in the 100-meter backstroke and a gold medal in
the 4x100-meter freestyle relay, setting a new world record.
John would be part of a second world record in the same event, swimming the
anchor leg in the 1975 World Championships in Columbia. Murphy was
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