Dan Harrigan

Daniel Lee Harrigan (born October 29, 1955) is an American former backstroke swimmer. At the 1975 Pan American Games he won the 200 m backstroke event, but also contracted hepatitis and had to stop training for several months. He managed to recover by the 1976 Olympics and won there a bronze medal in the same event.

Harrigan studied architecture at North Carolina State University, where he swam for the NC State Wolfpack swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) competition from 1973 to 1976.

See also

List of North Carolina State University people

List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)

References

1955 births

Living people

American male backstroke swimmers

NC State Wolfpack men's swimmers

Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in swimming

Sportspeople from South Bend, Indiana

Swimmers at the 1975 Pan American Games

Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States

Pan American Games medalists in swimming

Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games