Joe Ruddy (Redirected from Joseph Ruddy)
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Full name | Joseph Aloysius Ruddy Sr. | ||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||
Born | New York, New York | September 28, 1878||||||||||||||||
Died | November 11, 1962 Far Rockaway, New York | (aged 84)||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, water polo | ||||||||||||||||
Club | New York Athletic Club | ||||||||||||||||
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Joseph Aloysius Ruddy Sr. (September 28, 1878 – November 11, 1962) was an American competition swimmer and water polo player who represented the United States at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. Ruddy won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the men's 4x50-yard freestyle relay. He won a second gold medal as a member of the first-place U.S. water polo team.
Ruddy was the father of 1928 Olympic swimmer Ray Ruddy, and two other sons and two daughters. His oldest son and namesake, Joseph Ruddy, Jr. was a U.S. Navy admiral.
He died at home in 1962; he was 84 years old.
In 1977, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.
See also
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- List of athletes with Olympic medals in different disciplines
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- 1878 births
- 1962 deaths
- Sportspeople from New York City
- American male freestyle swimmers
- American male water polo players
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in water polo
- American water polo coaches
- American swimming Olympic medalist stubs
- American water polo Olympic medalist stubs