Dan Harrigan

Dan Harrigan

Personal information
Full name	Daniel Lee Harrigan
Nickname	"Dan"
National team	United States
Born	(1955-10-29) October 29, 1955 South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke
Club	Michiana Marlins
College team	North Carolina State University
Medal record Representing the United States Olympic Games 1976 Montreal 200 m backstroke Pan American Games 1975 Mexico City 200 m backstroke

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)