Adelaide Lambert

Adelaide Lambert Ballard, born Adelaide Temperance Lambert on 27 October 1907 in Ancon, in the Panama Canal Zone, and died on 17 April 1996 in Bremerton, Washington, was an American competition swimmer for the Women's Swimming Association of New York. She learned to swim in Panama and was known for a rapid six-beat kick. She set a world record in the 300-yard medley in February 1927 and several American records, and won Amateur Athletic Union titles in freestyle, backstroke and individual medley. At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam she swam the lead-off leg of the United States women's 4x100-metre freestyle relay, which won gold in a world record 4:47.6 alongside Albina Osipowich, Eleanor Garatti and Martha Norelius. She had qualified for the 1924 team but fell ill before the ship sailed.