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John Joseph Murphy (born July 19 1953) is an American former backstroke and freestyle swimmer who won the gold medal in the men’s 4×100m freestyle relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Germany. At the 1972 Olympics the 19-year old also collected a bronze medal in the 100-meter backstroke. He swam for Indiana University under coach James Counsilman in the early and middle 1970s.