Dara Torres

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Competitor for the Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States
Olympic medal record
Women's swimming
Gold	Los Angeles 1984	4x100 m freestyle relay
Gold	Barcelona 1992	4x100 m freestyle relay
Gold	Sydney 2000^[1]	4x100 m freestyle relay
Gold	Sydney 2000	4x100 m medley relay
Bronze	Seoul 1988	4x100 m freestyle relay
Bronze	Sydney 2000	50 m freestyle
Bronze	Sydney 2000	100 m freestyle
Bronze	Sydney 2000	100 m butterfly

Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967, in Los Angeles, California) is an American swimmer. She was the first swimmer from her country to compete in four Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, and 2000.

She has won nine Olympic medals, including four golds, and won five medals alone in at Sydney in 2000, the Games in which she was the eldest member on the team with her 33 years. On August 1st, 2007 at the age of 40 (just 15 months after giving birth to her first child), she won gold in the 100 meter freestyle at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, her 14th win at these events. She then followed that up on August 4th, by breaking her own American record in the 50m freestyle.

She is currently training for the 2008 Summer Olympics and would become the first swimmer to make five Olympic teams and the oldest female Olympic swimmer, at age 41, were she to make the team.

1 Early career
2 Post-swimming career
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Early career

Torres attended the Westlake School for Girls (now Harvard-Westlake School), located in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, and swam under coach Darlene Bible, where she set CIF records that remain to this day.^[2]

Torres is featured in the book Gold in the Water by P.H. Mullen, which describes her comeback for the 2000 Olympics under coaches Richard Quick and Dick Jochums. She broke the World Record in the women's 50m freestyle three times during the early 1980s.

She subsequently attended the University of Florida, where she received 28 All-American honors.

[edit] Post-swimming career

Torres has worked on television as a reporter and announcer for American networks such as NBC, ESPN, TNT, OLN and Fox News Channel. She now hosts the golf show the Clubhouse on the Resort Sports Network. She is also a sometime model, having appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1994.

[edit] Trivia

Torres is Jewish on her father's side.
She and her partner, David Hoffman, have a daughter named Tessa Grace, born in April 2006.
With the disqualification of Marion Jones, Torres is the first American woman to have won five medals in a single Olympiad.