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Shelley Isabel Mann (born October 15 1937) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne Australia she won the gold medal in the women’s 100-meter butterfly event and was a member of the runner-up U.S. team that won the silver medal for the women’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay.Mann caught polio aged six and took up swimming to aid her recovery. She was a student at the American University in Washington D.C.