Shelley Mann

Shelley Isabel Mann (October 15, 1937 – March 24, 2005) was an American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia where she won the gold medal in the women's 100-meter butterfly event, and was a member of the U.S. team that won the silver medal for the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

[3] At the age of 12, Shelley Mann was swimming competitively, and by the time she was 14 she had won the first of what would eventually be 24 AAU national championships in the freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, and individual medley events.

[1][8] Yorzyk recalled that Mann had trouble breaking bad habits when transitioning from butterfly-breaststroke to butterfly.

[7][2] At the 100 metres butterfly event at the 1955 Pan American Games, Shelley Mann won a bronze medal.

[2] Shelley Mann died on 24 March 2005, at the age of 67 and was buried in her families plot of land in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton.