Carol Klimpel | |
Fullname: | Carol Klimpel |
National Team: | Canada |
Strokes: | Freestyle |
Club: | SS Aquatic Club |
Birth Date: | March 30, 1963 |
Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario |
Height: | 1.73m (05.68feet) |
Weight: | 63kg (139lb) |
Carol Klimpel (born March 30, 1963) is a female former freestyle swimmer from Canada, who was chosen to represent her native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, but did not participate because of the United States-led boycott. She did compete at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and won a silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games with the women's relay team. At the 1978 Commonwealth Games, she won gold medals in the 100-metre freestyle and 4×100-metre freestyle and 4×100-metre medley relays.
In 2019 Klimpel and her husband John appeared on the home show Property Brothersfeaturing their purchase and remodelling of a lakefront house on Old Hickory Lake near Nashville, Tennessee.[1]