Dara Torres
Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967) is an American former competitive
swimmer, who is a 12-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in three events. Torres is the first swimmer to represent the United States in five
Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and at age 41, the oldest swimmer to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team. At the
2008 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 50-meter
freestyle, 4×100-meter
medley relay, and 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and won
silver medals in all three events.
Torres won 12 Olympic medals (four gold, four silver, four bronze), at the time this was the most Olympic women's swimming medals, tied with fellow American
Jenny Thompson. Torres won five medals at the
2000 Summer Olympics, when at age 33, she was the oldest member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic swim team. She won at least one medal in each of the five Olympics in which she competed.
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