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Allen Stack

Personal information
Full name	Allen McIntyre Stack
National team	United States
Born	(1928-01-23)January 23, 1928 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	September 12, 1999(1999-09-12) (aged 71) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke
College team	Yale University
Medal record Men's swimming Representing the  United States Olympic Games 1948 London 100 m backstroke Pan American Games 1951 Buenos Aires 100 m backstroke 1951 Buenos Aires 3×100 m medley

Allen McIntyre Stack (January 23, 1928 – September 12, 1999) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.

Stack won the gold medal in the men's 100-meter backstroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Four years later at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. He placed fourth in the final of the same event.

Stack attended Yale University, where he swam for the Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1947 to 1949. He graduated from Yale with a bachelor's degree in 1949. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1951 to 1954, and graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1956. He practiced law in Honolulu, Hawaii until 1998.

Stack was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1979.

See also

• List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
• List of Yale University people
• World record progression 200 metres backstroke

References

1. ^ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Allen Stack. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
2. Frank Litsky, "Allen Stack, 71, a Swimmer Who Broke 6 World Records," The New York Times (September 19, 1999). Retrieved October 3, 2012.
3. "Allen Stack (USA)". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2015.

External links

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Allen Stack". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020.
• Allen Stack (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame at the Wayback Machine (archived 2015-04-02)

v t e 1948 USA Olympic swimming team
Men's Team	Keith Carter Bob Cowell William Dudley Alan Ford Bob Gibe Edwin Gilbert Bill Heusner Jimmy McLane Forbes Norris Howard Patterson Wally Ris Eugene Rogers Bill Smith Bob Sohl Allen Stack Joe Verdeur Wally Wolf
Women's Team	Marie Corridon Ann Curtis Brenda Helser Barbara Jensen Thelma Kalama Clara LaMore Nancy Lees Muriel Mellon Penny Pence Jeanne Wilson Suzanne Zimmerman

v t e 1952 USA Olympic swimming team
Men's Team	Dick Cleveland Frank Dooley Ronald Gora Jerry Holan Burwell Jones Ford Konno Jimmy McLane Wayne Moore Monte Nitzkowski Yoshi Oyakawa Clarke Scholes Don Sheff Allen Stack Bowen Stassforth Jack Taylor Wally Wolf Bill Woolsey
Women's Team	Jody Alderson Julia Cornell Mary Freeman Carolyn Green Evelyn Kawamoto Jackie LaVine Delia Meulenkamp Coralie O'Connor Gail Peters Judith Roberts Della Sehorn Barbara Stark Marilee Stepan

• 1928 births
• 1999 deaths
• American male backstroke swimmers
• Columbia Law School alumni
• Deerfield Academy alumni
• Lawyers from Hawaii
• Sportspeople from New Haven, Connecticut
• Yale Bulldogs men's swimmers
• 20th-century American lawyers
• Swimmers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
• Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
• Swimmers at the 1951 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 1951 Pan American Games
• Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in swimming
• 20th-century American people
• 20th-century American sportsmen