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| Full name | Richard Michael McGeagh | ||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Born | March 11, 1944 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Died | September 9, 2021 (aged 77) Hermitage, Tennessee, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Los Angeles Athletic Club | ||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Southern California | ||||||||||||||
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Richard Michael McGeagh (March 11, 1944 – September 9, 2021) was an American competition swimmer and water polo player in his youth, and later a real estate appraiser. He was best known for swimming the backstroke leg for the U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×100-meter medley relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and establishing the Olympic record for a backstroke leg. The U.S. team won its preliminary heat and also won the event final, but McGeagh did not swim in the finals and was consequently not eligible for an Olympic medal under the rules in place at the time.