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Ralph Flanagan

Flanagan in 1938
Personal information
Full name	Ralph Drew Flanagan
National team	United States
Born	(1918-12-14)December 14, 1918 Los Alamitos, California
Died	February 8, 1988(1988-02-08) (aged 69) Los Alamitos, California
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Greater Miami Athletic Club
College team	University of Texas
Medal record Representing the United States Olympic Games 1936 Berlin 4×200 m freestyle

Ralph Drew Flanagan (December 14, 1918 – February 8, 1988) was an American competitive swimmer who represented the United States at two consecutive Summer Olympics during the 1930s.

As a 13-year-old at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, Flanagan competed in the semifinals of the men's 1,500-meter freestyle. Four years later at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, he won a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Individually, he finished fourth in the men's 400-meter freestyle and fifth in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle.

Flanagan was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1978.

See also

• List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
• List of University of Texas at Austin alumni

References

1. ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Ralph Flanagan. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
2. Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games, Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle Final. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
3. Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, United States Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
4. Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games, Men's 400 metres Freestyle Final. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
5. Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games, Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle Final. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
6. "Ralph Flanagan (USA)". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on October 28, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2015.

v t e 1932 USA Olympic swimming team
Men's Team	Frank Booth Gordon Chalmers Buster Crabbe Jim Cristy George Fissler Ralph Flanagan Basil Francis James Gilhula John Paulsen Maiola Kalili Manuella Kalili Robert Kerber Edwin Moles Albert Schwartz Raymond Thompson Dan Zehr
Women's Team	Jane Cadwell Helen Johns Norene Forbes Ann Govednik Margaret Hoffman Eleanor Holm Lenore Kight Helene Madison Josephine McKim Joan McSheehy Eleanor Saville

v t e 1936 USA Olympic swimming team
Men's team	Jim Cristy Taylor Drysdale Peter Fick Ralph Flanagan Ralph Gilman John Higgins Arthur Highland Charles Hutter Jack Kasley Ray Kaye Adolph Kiefer Arthur Lindegren John Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf
Women's team	Alice Bridges Iris Cummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge Mary Lou Petty Katherine Rawls Elizabeth Ryan Dorothy Schiller Lenore Wingard

• 1918 births
• 1988 deaths
• American male freestyle swimmers
• Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
• Sportspeople from Los Alamitos, California
• Swimmers from California
• Swimmers at the 1932 Summer Olympics
• Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Texas Longhorns men's swimmers
• Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
• 20th-century American sportsmen