Margaret Woodbridge, also known by her married name Margaret Presley, was an American competition swimmer who won a gold and a silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. Born in 1902 and swimming for the Detroit Athletic Club under coach Matthew Mann, she set national records in the 200 and 500 yard freestyle events and was a member of the first United States Olympic women's swimming team. She qualified for the Games only as an alternate, yet she swam on the winning 4x100 metre freestyle relay team with Frances Schroth, Irene Guest and Ethelda Bleibtrey, which set a world record of 5:11.6, and she took silver in the 300 metre freestyle behind Bleibtrey. That event was never contested at the Olympics again. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Pioneer Swimmer in 1989 and died in 1995.
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she won the gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women
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Individually, Woodbridge received a silver medal for her second-place performance of 4:42.8
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