swimming Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/swimming/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:22:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png swimming Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/swimming/ 32 32 The Deaf Man Who Won 11 Gold Medals In His Olympic Career https://deafniche.com/the-deaf-man-who-won-11-gold-medals-in-his-olympic-career/ https://deafniche.com/the-deaf-man-who-won-11-gold-medals-in-his-olympic-career/#respond Wed, 04 Jan 2023 05:10:00 +0000 https://deafniche.com/?p=11586 Jeff Float is a former American swimmer who had a successful career at the collegiate and international level. His matter of fact nature and sense of humor defined his career:  “With the last name of Float, what else was I going to do?”   Born in Buffalo, New York, he contracted viral meningitis which destroyed his […]

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]]> https://deafniche.com/the-deaf-man-who-won-11-gold-medals-in-his-olympic-career/feed/ 0 Deaf Swimmer Competes for Olympic Spot https://deafniche.com/marcus-titus-deaf-swimmer-rio-olympics/ Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:48:39 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=9175 Marcus Titus joined the Olympic trials for a spot in Rio While watching the swimmers at the trials for the coveted Olympic spot, no one would have guessed that one of the hopefuls is deaf. Marcus Titus is a 30 year old swimmer from Tucson, Arizona. He started swimming at 12 years old with the […]

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]]> Did you know the first woman to swim the English Channel, Gertrude Ederle, was deaf? https://deafniche.com/gertrudeederle/ Sat, 26 Mar 2016 02:43:56 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=9022 Ederle broke 10 world records in 1926 Gertrude Ederle was the daughter of German immigrants and she was deaf from childhood due to measles. This didn’t stop her from swimming competitively! When she was only twelve years old, she set the world record for the 880 meter freestyle! After that, she participated in many competitions […]

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