Natalie Coughlin

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Medal record
Women's Swimming
Olympic Games
Bronze 2004 Athens[1] 100 m freestyle
Gold 2004 Athens 100 m backstroke
Silver 2004 Athens 4 x 100 m freestyle relay
Silver 2004 Athens 4 x 100 m medley relay
Gold 2004 Athens 4 x 200 m freestyle relay
World Championships
Gold 2001 Fukuoka 100 m backstroke
Silver 2001 Fukuoka 4 x 100 m medley relay
Bronze 2001 Fukuoka 50 m backstroke
Gold 2003 Barcelona 4 x 100 m freestyle relay
Silver 2003 Barcelona 4 x 100 m medley relay
Bronze 2005 Montreal[2] 100 m freestyle
Bronze 2005 Montreal 100 m backstroke
Bronze 2005 Montreal 4 x 100 m freestyle relay
Silver 2005 Montreal 4 x 100 m medley relay
Gold 2005 Montreal 4 x 200 m freestyle relay
Gold 2007 Melbourne[3] 100 m backstroke
Bronze 2007 Melbourne 100 m butterfly
Silver 2007 Melbourne 4 x 100 m freestyle relay
Gold 2007 Melbourne 4 x 200 m freestyle relay
Silver 2007 Melbourne 4 x 100 m medley relay
World Championships - Short Course
Bronze 2006 Shanghai[4] 100 m freestyle

Natalie Anne Coughlin (born August 23, 1982 in Vallejo, California) is a United States swimmer and represented the United States at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won two gold medals, two silver medals, and a bronze. She is known for her dominance in a short course pool and unmatched underwater kicking ability. She currently holds American and US Open records in eight different events in a short course yards pool.

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[edit] Biography

She is originally from Concord, California and is of Filipino and Irish heritage.

Prior to journeying to Athens, she was a student-athlete at Carondelet High School in Concord CA, Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, then later at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a BA in psychology in 2005. She had won three National Collegiate Athletic Association Swimmer of the Year honors in her first three years at the university.

Coughlin won the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in the women's 100 meter backstroke event and was a member of the silver medal women's 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay with Kara Lynn Joyce, Amanda Weir, and Jenny Thompson. She also broke a world record and won gold as a member of the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay. Her lead-off split on the relay would have won gold in the individual 200 meter freestyle event.

Coughlin worked as an in-studio host for MSNBC during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.

[edit] Trivia

-In 2002, Coughlin became the first woman in history to break the one-minute barrier in the 100-meter backstroke, swimming to a new world record of 59.58.

-In 2007, Coughlin broke her own world record in the 100-meter backstroke, swimming a 59.44.

-While swimming for UC Berkeley (also known as "Cal") Coughlin set 5 NCAA and American records in the 100-yard free (47.00), 200-yard Free (1:42.65), 100-yard Fly (50.01), 200-yard Fly (1:51.91), 100-yard Back (49.97), and the 200-yard Back (1:49.52). Many consider her 100-yard backstroke record to be her greatest swim ever. Coughlin is not only the only female to swim a sub-50 second 100-yard backstroke, but no other woman in history has broken the 52 second barrier.

-Coughlin is the second American woman to win 5 medals in a single olympiad behind fellow swimmer Dara Torres. However, Coughlin's 2 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze is more impressive than that of Torres, who won 2 golds and 3 bronzes.

[edit] 2004 Summer Olympics

Natalie Coughlin's 2004 Summer Olympics Events
Final medal count: 5 (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
Date Event Final Time Place
August 14 4x100m Freestyle Relay 3:36.39 AR 2nd
August 16 100m Backstroke 1:00.37 ** 1st
August 18 4x200m Freestyle Relay 7:53.42 WR 1st
August 19 100m Freestyle 54.40 3rd
August 21 4x100m Medley Relay 3:59.12 *** 2nd
WR: World Record; AR: American Record
** Coughlin set the Olympic Record (1:00.17) in the semi-finals.
*** Coughlin set a new Olympic Record for the 100m backstroke (59.68) in the relay lead-off leg.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2004 Olympic Games swimming results. Retrieved on 2007-07-22.
  2. ^ Montreal 2005 Results. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
  3. ^ 12th FINA World Championships. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
  4. ^ Shanghai 2006 results. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.

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Records
Preceded by
Image:Flag of Slovakia.svg Martina Moravcová 		Women's 100 metre butterfly
world record holder (short course)
November 22, 2002 – August 28, 2006 		Succeeded by
Image:Flag of Australia.svg Libby Lenton
Preceded by
Image:Flag of the United States.svg Jenny Thompson 		Women's 100 metre individual medley
world record holder (short course)
November 23, 2002 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Awards
Preceded by
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Inge de Bruijn 		World Swimmer of the Year
2002 		Succeeded by
Image:Flag of Germany.svg Hannah Stockbauer
Preceded by
Image:Flag of the United States.svg Brooke Bennett 		World American Swimmer of the Year
2001 – 2002 		Succeeded by
Image:Flag of the United States.svg Amanda Beard


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Olympic champions in women's 100 m backstroke
1924: Sybil Bauer  1928: Marie Braun  1932: Eleanor Holm  1936: Nida Senff  1948: Karen Harup  1952: Joan Harrison  1956: Judy Grinham  1960: Lynn Burke  1964: Cathy Ferguson  1968: Kaye Hall  1972: Melissa Belote  1976: Ulrike Richter  1980: Rica Reinisch  1984: Theresa Andrews  1988: Kristin Otto  1992: Krisztina Egerszegi  1996: Beth Botsford  2000: Diana Mocanu  2004: Natalie Coughlin


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