Dara Torres
 

Dara Torres

Medal record
Dara Torres
Dara Torres
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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
Pan Pacific Championships
Gold 1987 Brisbane 100m Freestyle

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.

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