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| Birth name | Tammie Spatz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Saginaw, Michigan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tammie Spatz-Stone (born 1976) is an American former competitive swimmer. Stone won the bronze medal in the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming championship alongside Jenny Thompson and Jodie Henry. [1] [2] [3]
Tammie began taking swimming lessons at YMCA.
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