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Adolph Gustav Kiefer (born June 27 1918) is an American former competition swimmer Olympic champion former world record-holder and inventor and innovator of new products related to aquatics competition. He was the first man in the world to swim 100-yard backstroke in fewer than sixty seconds.Kiefer was born in Chicago Illinois and attended Theodore Roosevelt High School (1936) the University of Texas at Austin (1939) and Columbia College (1940).