Jed Graef
Graef at the 1964 Olympics | ||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jedward Richard Graef | |||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||
| Born | May 1, 1942 Montclair, New Jersey, U.S. | |||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 201 lb (91 kg) | |||||||||||
| Spouse | Sunyana Silverman Graef | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||
| Club | North Jersey Swim Association (NJSA) | |||||||||||
| College team | Princeton University | |||||||||||
| Coach | Bob Alexander (NJSA) Bob Clotworthy (Princeton) | |||||||||||
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Jed Richard Graef (born May 1, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, for Princeton University, a 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in the 200-meter backstroke, and former world record-holder.
After obtaining a Doctorate in Psychology from the University of Michigan, he taught for seven years at Toronto University, before moving to Rochester, New York, where he worked as a programmer and treasurer for the Rochester Zen Center, where he met his wife, Sunyata, an ordained Buddhist priest. After a move to Vermont in the late 1980's, he would continue to work as a programmer, serve on the Shelbourne School Board, and act as treasurer for the Vermont Zen Center in Shelbourne, founded by his wife in 1988.