Cathy Carr

Catherine L. Carr, known as Cathy Carr and by her married name Cathy West, is an American former competition swimmer born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 27 May 1954. She trained with the Coronado Swim Club under 1960 Olympic gold medallist Mike Troy. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich she won the women's 100-metre breaststroke in a world record 1:13.58 and swam the breaststroke leg of the United States team that won the 4x100-metre medley relay in a world record 4:20.75. Her 100-metre breaststroke record stood from September 1972 to August 1974. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Swimmer in 1988, swam for the first University of California, Davis women's team and later taught elementary school.