Claudia Anne Kolb is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in four events. Kolb swam with the Santa Clara Swim Club and was coached by George Haines. Kolb represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's 200-meter breaststroke, and received the silver medal for her second-place performance behind Soviet Galina Prozumenshchikova, who set a new Olympic record. When Mexico City hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics, Kolb won two gold medals. She dominated her competition in the medley events, winning both the 200-meter individual medley and 400-meter individual medley. Kolb set new Olympic records in both events in the preliminary heats and the event finals. Kolb retired from competition swimming after the Mexico City Olympics. Her married name is Claudia Thomas. She has coached swimming at clubs in South Bend, Indiana and Santa Clara, California, and college teams at Stanford University and at Pacific University. Her Stanford swimmers won the 1980 AIAW national team championship. She currently lives in Oregon. [More at Wikipedia]

December 19th, 1949 in Hayward (Age 74) as Claudia Anne Kolb