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Adolph Kiefer, a Gold-Medal Backstroker in the 1936 Olympics, Dies at 98

Adolph Kiefer, a celebrated swimming champion who won gold as a teenager at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and might well have become one of America’s greatest Olympic champions if World War II had not intervened, died at his home in Wadsworth, Ill. He was 98.

The United States Olympic Committee reported his death on its Team USA website on Friday, describing him as the oldest living United States Olympic champion. It did not say when he died.