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Birth name | Ilze Konrade | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Ilsa Konrads | |||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Riga, Latvia | 29 March 1944|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ilsa Konrads (Latvian: Ilze Konrade; born 29 March 1944) is an Australian former freestyle swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics.[1] In her career, she set 13 individual world records, and after her swimming career ended, was the Australasian editor of Belle magazine. Along with her brother John Konrads, who also set multiple world records, and won gold in the 1500-metre freestyle, they were known as the Konrad Kids.