Simone Manuel

CTL-E-6717 · Person · other · contemporary

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Simone Manuel became the first Black woman to win an individual Olympic swimming gold medal when she won the 100-metre freestyle at the Rio 2016 Games, setting an Olympic record of 52.70 seconds. She won four medals at Rio and two more at Tokyo 2020. A Stanford standout, Manuel has been a central figure in widening access to swimming, a sport shaped by a documented history of exclusion.

Notes

Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged athletes packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/athletes/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Swimming (United States) · Photo: Photo: Voltmetro · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kazan_2015_-_Simone_Manuel.jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6717.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Simone Manuel' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Manuel
• teamusa.com — https://www.teamusa.com/profiles/simone-manuel-1189598

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