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Leslie Rich
American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (1886-1969) · United States · On the map · Athletes · Died at 83
Leslie George Rich was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where he won a bronze medal swimming with the U.S. men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay team.
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He was later a supplemental selection for the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, and was scheduled to swim the 100 and 400-meter freestyle but did not compete. Rich attended Brookline High School and trained and competed for the Brookline Swimming Club. Prior to the 1908 Olympics, at a highly publicized swim match between Harvard and Yale at the Brookline Public Baths on March 11, Rich, as a Captain of the Brookline Swim Club, was scheduled to swim a 50-yard swim match with American Olympic Gold medalist and fellow 1908 Olympian Charles Daniels, but Daniels did not show for the event.
