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Key facts
- Full name
- Shane Elizabeth Gould
- National team
- Australia
- Born
- ( 1956-11-23 ) 23 November 1956 (age 69) , Sydney , New South Wales , Australia
- Height
- 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Weight
- 59 kg (130 lb)
- Spouse s
- Neil Innes (1974), Milton Nelms (2007)
- Sport
- Swimming
- Strokes
- Freestyle , medley
- Club
- Forbes Carlile Swimming
- Coach
- Forbes Carlile
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elizabeth
- Family name
- Gould
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Sydney
- Occupation
- swimmer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- competitive swimming
- Mass
- 60
- Official website
- www.shanegould.com.au
- Image
- Shane Gould (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 172
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1956-11-23
- Commons category
- Shane Gould
- birth name
- Shane Elizabeth Gould
- start of work period
- 1971-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Shane Elizabeth Gould AM MBE (born 23 November 1956) is an Australian former competition swimmer. She won three gold medals, a silver medal and a bronze, at the 1972 Summer Olympics, becoming the first woman swimmer to win five individual medals. In 2018, she won the fifth season of Australian Survivor, becoming the oldest winner of any Survivor franchise.
Gould was born in Australia, but spent most of her childhood in Fiji after she and her family moved there. After her 1972 Olympic performance, Gould was named the Australian of the Year, and received an MBE in 1981. In April 2018, Gould was awarded an Order of Merit by the Australian Olympic Committee.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shane Gould” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.