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{{Short description|Canadian swimmer (born 1961)}}
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| fullname       = Nancy Ellen Garapick
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| national_team  = Canada
| strokes        = [[Backstroke]], [[butterfly stroke|butterfly]]
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| birth_date     = {{Birth date and age|1961|9|24|mf=y}}
| birth_place    = [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]]
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| weight         = {{convert|54|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's swimming}}
{{MedalCountry| Canada}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Swimming at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Montreal]] | [[Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre backstroke|100 m backstroke]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Montreal]] | [[Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics - Women's 200 metre backstroke|200 m backstroke]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FINA World Aquatics Championships|World Championships (LC)]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1975 World Aquatics Championships|1975 Cali]] | 200 m backstroke}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1975 World Aquatics Championships|1975 Cali]] | 100 m backstroke}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1978 World Aquatics Championships|1978 Berlin]] | 4x100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Pan American Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games|1979 San Juan]] | 200 m medley}}
{{MedalSilver | [[Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games|1979 San Juan]] | 4x100 m medley}}
{{MedalBronze | [[Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games|1979 San Juan]] | 100 m butterfly}}
{{MedalBronze | [[Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games|1979 San Juan]] | 200 m butterfly}}
{{MedalBronze | [[Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games|1979 San Juan]] | 400 m medley}}
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'''Nancy Ellen Garapick''' (born September 24, 1961) is a former Canadian competition [[swimming (sport)|swimmer]], Olympic medallist, and former world record-holder.  She won two bronze medals in the 100-metre backstroke and 200-metre backstroke at the [[1976 Summer Olympics]] in Montreal at the age of 14, behind two East German athletes, Ulrike Richter and Birgit Treiber, who later were confirmed to be longstanding participants of the East German doping scandal of the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/dopings-darkest-hour-the-east-germans-and-the-1976-montreal-games]. |title= Doping's Darkest Hour: The East Germans and the 1976 Olympic Games |publisher= [[Swimming World]]| date=2013-11-28 |accessdate=2013-11-28}}</ref>"She set a new Olympic record for the 100-metre backstroke during heats.

Garapick's Olympic performances came on the heels of her world record performance on April 27, 1975 at the Eastern Canadian Swimming Championships in Brantford, Ontario, while a member of the [[Halifax Trojan Aquatic Club]] and coached by [[Nigel Kemp]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nsshf.com/inductee_view.cfm?InducteeID=155 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060809155308/http://www.nsshf.com/inductee_view.cfm?InducteeID=155 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-08-09 |title=Nigel Kemp, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame |publisher=[[Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame]] |date=2008-10-08 |accessdate=2008-10-08 }}</ref> It was there that she set a new World Record in the 200m backstroke with a time of 2:16:33 at the age of 13.

In 2008, she was inducted into [[Canada's Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tsn.ca/other_sports/story/?id=237621&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_main |title=Yzerman, Lewis among Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductees|publisher=[[The Sports Network]]|date=2008-05-13 |accessdate=2008-05-13}}</ref>  The official ceremony took place November 5, 2008, in Toronto, Ontario.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cshof.ca/accessible/whatson_event_detail.php?item_id=19 |title=Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inducts its newest Honoured Members |publisher=Canada's Sports Hall of Fame |date=2008-11-05 |accessdate=2008-11-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517221135/http://www.cshof.ca/accessible/whatson_event_detail.php?item_id=19 |archivedate=2008-05-17 }}</ref>

In 2018 she was named one of the greatest 15 athletes in Nova Scotia's history.<ref name="CBC">{{cite news |last1=Tattrie |first1=Jon |title=Sidney Crosby to headline 'greatest sports dinner' in Nova Scotia |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sidney-crosby-to-headline-greatest-sports-dinner-in-nova-scotia-1.4641550 |accessdate=27 July 2018 |publisher=CBC Sports |date=30 April 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)]]
* [[List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)]]
* [[World record progression 200 metres backstroke]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Team Canada|nancy-garapick}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070310190006/http://www.olympic.ca/EN/athletes/query/details2.php?id=35832 archive])
* [https://nsshf.com/inductee/nancy-ellen-garapick/ Nancy Garapick] at [[Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame]] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20060810042932/http://www.nsshf.com/NancyGarapick.htm archive])
* {{Canada's Sports Hall of Fame}}
* {{FINA|1108217}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|id=nancy-ellen-garapick|org_id=nancy-garapick|org_archive=20200328214136}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{CGF}}

{{Bobbie Rosenfeld Award}}

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[[Category:1961 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Canadian female backstroke swimmers]]
[[Category:Canadian female butterfly swimmers]]
[[Category:Canadian female freestyle swimmers]]
[[Category:Canadian female medley swimmers]]
[[Category:World record setters in swimming]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Canada]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:Olympic swimmers for Canada]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Halifax, Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1979 Pan American Games]]
[[Category:World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada]]
[[Category:Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada]]
[[Category:Pan American Games silver medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:Pan American Games bronze medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian sportswomen]]
[[Category:Swimmers from Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from Nova Scotia]]


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