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Donna de Varona(also known as: Donna DeVarona), born April 26, 1947 in San Diego, California, United States is an American swimmer and broadcast journalist.


When she qualified for the U.S.

swim team for the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Donna de Varona was only 13 years old, the youngest member of the Games that year.

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Donna de Varona became the youngest competitor at the 1960 Olympic Games.

She is an Emmy-winning pioneer producer and journalist in sports and news, having covered some 18 Olympic Games.

Four years later she won two gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics. She remains a world record holder in numerous events, including the sport's most challenging one, the 400-meter individual medley, and the 100-meter backstroke.

The individual medley requires enormous strength, flexibility, and endurance; competitors must swim four 100-meter laps, one for each stroke, including backstroke, freestyle (crawl), butterfly, and breast. Always up for a challenge, it is no surprise that the individual medley was always de Varona's favorite event.

De Varona went on to become ABC's first full-time female sportscaster. In a controversial