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Catherine Fox

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Catherine Mai-Lan Fox, born December 15, 1977, in Detroit, Michigan, is an American former swimmer who competed for Stanford University, and won two gold medals swimming freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics, one in the 4x100 freestyle relay and one in the 4x100 medley relay. She is of Vietnamese and European descent. Her father, Thomas C. Fox (editor and former publisher of the National Catholic Reporter), worked in Vietnam for International Voluntary Services from 1966 to 1968, where he met Catherine's mother, To Kim Hoa, a social worker in Can Tho who married Fox in South Vietnam on January 16, 1971. The family moved to Detroit to work for the Detroit Free Press in 1972 where Catherine was born, before later moving to Washington D.C. in 1978 to work for the Washington Star. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Catherine Fox is the 520th most popular swimmer (down from 511th in 2024), the 19,414th most popular biography from United States (down from 18,956th in 2019) and the 153rd most popular American Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Catherine Fox ranks 520 out of 709. Before her are Georgina Bardach, Alessia Filippi, Klete Keller, Mark Tewksbury, Rachele Bruni, and Marcelo Chierighini. After her are Yoko Isoda, Danas Rapšys, Ana Marcela Cunha, Fabien Gilot, Lukas Märtens, and Pál Joensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Catherine Fox ranks 1,291. Before her are Daiju Matsumoto, Aleksandar Stavrev, Danny Mills, Bobby Moynihan, Rita König, and Abdullah Jumaan Al-Dosari. After her are Clayton Zane, Daniel Pemberton, Capi, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Eirik Bakke, and Alexander Kosenkow.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Catherine Fox ranks 19,422 out of 20,380. Before her are Drake Callender (1997), Greg Anthony (1967), Juliana Harkavy (1985), Jason McCartney (1973), Cristian Roldan (1995), and Montana Jordan (2003). After her are Eric Ladin (1978), Jordan Hamilton (1990), Annie Mumolo (1973), Indya Moore (1995), Tim Austin (1971), and Daniel Curtis Lee (1991).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Catherine Fox ranks 153. Before her are Jill Sterkel (1961), Cynthia Woodhead (1964), Tripp Schwenk (1971), Tom Dolan (1975), Beth Botsford (1981), and Klete Keller (1982). After her are Margaret Hoelzer (1983), Farida Osman (1995), Cullen Jones (1984), Brooke Bennett (1980), Annie Lazor (1994), and Kaitlin Sandeno (1983).

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