John Parker (water polo)

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John Parker
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BornSeptember 13, 1946 (1946-09-13) (age 77)
Long Beach, California, U.S.
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Men's water polo
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John Michael Parker (born September 13, 1946) is an American retired water polo player, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1968. He won the bronze medal with the Men's National Team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

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Parker studied at Stanford University, where he was on the water polo team, and Harvard Business School.

In 1982, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. [1] [2]

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References

  1. "John Parker (1982)". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  2. "Hall of Fame Inductees". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved 18 September 2020.