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| Born | December 6, 1939 Brea, California, United States | ||||||||||||||
| Died | December 20, 2015 (aged 76) Manhattan Beach, California, United States | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Water polo | ||||||||||||||
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Ronald "Ron" Emerson Crawford (December 6, 1939 - December 20, 2015) was an American water polo player who competed in the 1959 Pan American Games, the 1960 Summer Olympics, in the 1964 Summer Olympics, and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Crawford was a member of the American water polo team which took the gold medal in the 1959 Pan American games. [1]
Crawford was a member of the American water polo team which finished seventh in the 1960 tournament. He played six matches and scored five goals.
Four years later, he was eliminated in the first round with the American team in the 1964 Olympic tournament. He played three matches and scored four goals.
At the 1968 Olympic water polo tournament, he finished fifth with the American team. He played all eight matches but did not score a goal.
In 1966, he became a water polo coach at Beverly Hills High School, where he continued to coach until at least the early 1990s.
In 1977, Ronald Crawford was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame. [2] [3] In 1983 he became the first American water polo player to be inducted into the international water polo Hall of Fame.
Ronald Crawford was a Manhattan Beach resident of 53 years, died peacefully on December 20, 2015 surrounded by his family.
Brenda Villa is an American accomplished water polo player. She is the most decorated athlete in the world of women’s water polo. Villa was named Female Water Polo Player of the Decade for 2000-2009 by the FINA Aquatics World Magazine. She is one of four female players who competed in water polo at four Olympics; and one of two female athletes who won four Olympic medals in water polo. She is a leading goalscorer in Olympic water polo history, with 31 goals. In 2018, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.
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Robert "Bob" Martin Horn was a collegiate swimmer and Water Polo Player for Fullerton College and Long Beach State, who as the first full-time UCLA swimming and Water Polo Coach from around 1964-1991 led the Bruins to 3 NCAA Water Polo Championships in 1969, 1970–72, and 7 Water Polo PAC-8 league championships from 1964-1971. He represented the United States in Water Polo as an outstanding goalie in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
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This article contains lists of various statistics on the United States men's national water polo team at the Summer Olympics. The lists are updated as of March 30, 2020.
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