Allen McIntyre Stack (January 23, 1928 in New Haven, Connecticut – September 12, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii) was a U.S. backstroke swimmer, who won the 100m Backstroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

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  • Allen McIntyre Stack (January 23, 1928 in New Haven, Connecticut – September 12, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii) was a U.S. backstroke swimmer, who won the 100m Backstroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. From 1948 to 1951, during and after his college days, Stack broke six world and 22 American records in the backstroke. Stack was educated at Deerfield Academy before graduating from Yale University in 1949, spent 1951 to 1954 in the Navy and graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1956. He moved to Honolulu and practiced law there until 1998. At six feet five inches and 215 pounds, Stack was bigger than most other backstrokers. His stroke was long, looping and seemingly effortless. He would put his arm in the water pull through like a normal backstroker, but as he brought the arm to his side he would bend it a little at the elbow and push with his hands toward his feet. Stack therefore revolutionized backstroke swimming. In the 100-meter backstroke, Stack also won the gold medal at the 1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires. He also won ten national championships. He entered the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1979. In 1952, Stack tried to retain his Olympic title, but just before the event he fell off a motor scooter. Swimming with a bandaged hand, he finished fourth. After the 1952 Summer Olympics, he married Elizabeth Loy Marks of Honolulu. His two Olympics were marked by startling moments. As a friend and former Yale swimmer, Everett MacLeman, recalled in The New York Times: "Seconds before the starting gun in the 1948 final, he was in the water and pulled up his trunks. The cord broke and the trunks started to slip off. He hollered to the starter, who let him get out of the water and into new trunks that stayed up, and he became Yale's first-ever Olympic gold medal swimmer." Stack had suffered from bone cancer for more than a year, before he died in 1999. The illness prevented him from attending the 100th anniversary of Yale swimming. (en)
  • Specializzato nel dorso ha vinto la medaglia d'oro nei 100m dorso alle Olimpiadi di Londra 1948. Nel 1979 è diventato uno dei Membri dell'International Swimming Hall of Fame. E' stato primatista mondiale dei 100m e 200m dorso. (it)
  • Allen McIntyre Stack (* 23. Januar 1928 in New Haven; 12. September 1999 in Honolulu) war ein US-amerikanischer Schwimmer. Bei den Olympischen Spielen 1948 in London wurde er über 100 m Rücken Olympiasieger. Außerdem stellte er zwischen 1948 und 1951 sechs Weltrekorde und 22 Amerikanische Rekorde auf. Bei den Olympischen Spielen 1952 in Helsinki musste er aufgrund eines Unfalls mit einem Motorboot mit einem Verband antreten, so dass er die Medaillenränge knapp verpasste. Im Jahr 1979 wurde er in die Ruhmeshalle des internationalen Schwimmsports aufgenommen. Allen Stack starb 1999 an Knochenkrebs. (de)
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  • Allen McIntyre Stack (January 23, 1928 in New Haven, Connecticut – September 12, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii) was a U.S. backstroke swimmer, who won the 100m Backstroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. (en)
  • Specializzato nel dorso ha vinto la medaglia d'oro nei 100m dorso alle Olimpiadi di Londra 1948. Nel 1979 è diventato uno dei Membri dell'International Swimming Hall of Fame. (it)
  • Allen McIntyre Stack (* 23. Januar 1928 in New Haven; 12. September 1999 in Honolulu) war ein US-amerikanischer Schwimmer. (de)
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  • Allen Stack (en)
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  • Allen Stack (de)
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