Thelma Kalama

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Personal information
Surname: Thelma H. ​​Kalama
Nickname (s): Cookies
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Swimming style (s) : Freestyle
Society: Hawaii swim club
Birthday: March 24, 1931
Place of birth: Honolulu
Date of death: May 17, 1999
Place of death: Honolulu
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Thelma H. ​​Kalama Aiu (born March 24, 1931 in Honolulu ; died May 17, 1999 there ) was an American swimmer.

life and career

The daughter of Abraham and Helene Kalama attended Kaimuki High School in Honolulu and trained with the renowned swimming instructor Soichi Sakamoto at an early age . A private collection campaign made it possible for her to travel to Detroit in 1948 to take part in the US eliminations for the Summer Olympics . There she took fourth place both over 100 meters and over 400 meters freestyle , which was not enough for qualifying for the Olympics. As part of the US 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay, she was still allowed to compete at the games in London . Together with Marie Corridon , Brenda Helser and Ann Curtis , she won the gold medal in a new Olympic record time of 4: 29.2 minutes.

Kalama was able to win three national championship titles in her career. In addition, she held the US record over 400 meters freestyle for some time.

After her career, Kalama attended Miami University in Oxford , Ohio and joined the Marines , where she rose to the rank of sergeant .

At the time of her death, she had four daughters, four sons, nineteen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

She was inducted into the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Hawai'i Swimming Hall of Fame posthumously in 2002 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thelma Kalama in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on December 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ Entry on ancestry.com (English), accessed December 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ Entry on hawaiisportshalloffame.com (English), accessed on December 4, 2018.
  4. ^ Dan Cisco: Hawai'i Sports: History, Facts and Statistics. University of Hawaii Press, 1999, p. 294 ( online )
  5. ↑ Obituary on archives.starbulletin.com (English), accessed on December 4, 2018.
  6. ↑ Article on the.honoluluadvertiser.com (English), accessed on December 4, 2018.
  7. ↑ Overview on hawaiisportshalloffame.com (English), accessed on December 4, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Kalama, Thelma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aiu, Thelma (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Honolulu , Territory of Hawaii
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1999
Place of death Honolulu , Hawaii