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Johnny Weissmuller, Pioneer Sprinter Who Beat The Jungle Drum For Swimming As Tarzan
Johnny Weissmuller in his days as top swimmer and Tarzan - all image public domain
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Johnny Weissmuller, Pioneer Sprinter Who Beat The Jungle Drum For Swimming As Tarzan

The life and times of one of the greatest aces to take the voice of swimming from the fast pool to wider world attention

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by Craig Lord
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Johnny Weissmuller was born on June 2, 1904, in Freidorf, then a part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, but today a district in Timisoara, Romania.

The son of Catholic and Jewish parents, Petrus Weissmuller and Elisabeth Kersch, he was registered as Peter John Weissmuller. Of Hungarian and German ancestry, he was baptised Janos Weissmuller. He would become one of the most dominant sprinters in the pool, remains among the best-known swimmers in history and goes down in history as one of the greatest forces for spreading the swimming wold to the wider world.

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