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Joan Arlene Spillane (born January 31 1943) is an American former competition swimmer Olympic champion and former world record-holder.Spillane competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Italy where she received a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay together with teammates Molly Botkin Shirley Stobs and Chris von Saltza. She Botkin Stobs and von Saltza set a new world record in the 4×100-meter freestyle of 4:08.9.