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Dara Torres Personal information Full name: Dara Torres Nationality:  United States Stroke(s): Freestyle, Butterfly Date of birth: April 15, 1967 (1967-04-15) (age 41) Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, United States Height: 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

Medal record Competitor for the  United States 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 Silver Seoul 1988 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 100 m Freestyle

Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967, in Los Angeles, California) is an American swimmer. She will be the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008. She will compete in the Beijing Olympic Games in the 50 and 100 meter freestyle events. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... This is a List of swimming styles commonly known and swum. ... is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Swimmer redirects here. ...  Music sample: Olympic Fanfare and Theme composed by John Williams for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Problems listening to the file? See media help. ... Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics MENS EVENTS WOMENS EVENTS ... The 92 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ... // Categories: | | ... The 2000 Summer Olympics or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games celebrated in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested. ... The 2000 Summer Olympics or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games celebrated in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested. ... Johnson winning the 100 m final The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games celebrated in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. ... The 1988 Summer Olympics took place in Seoul, South Korea. ... Johnson winning the 100 m final The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games celebrated in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. ... The 1988 Summer Olympics took place in Seoul, South Korea. ... The 2000 Summer Olympics or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games celebrated in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested. ... The 2000 Summer Olympics or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games celebrated in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested. ... The 2000 Summer Olympics or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games celebrated in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 32 swimming events were contested. ... The Pan Pacific Swimming Championships is a long course swimming event first held in 1985. ... is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ... The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be celebrated from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony commencing at 08:08:08 pm at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, Peoples Republic of China. ...

She has won nine Olympic medals, including four golds, and won five medals alone in 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 50 m freestyle. USA Swimming is the national governing body of competitive swimming in the United States. ...

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] Harvard-Westlake School is a secular, independent, coeducational college preparatory day school located in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California with approximately 1,600 students enrolled in grades 7 through 12. ... North Hollywood is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. ... The California Interscholastic Federation (abbreviated CIF) is the governing body for high school sports in the state of California. ...

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 50 m freestyle three times during the early 1980s. (Redirected from 2000 Olympics) Categories: 2000 Summer Olympics ... Richard Quick is the head coach of the womens swim team at Stanford University, California, USA. He has been a coach for the US Olympic team for five Olympics - 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000. ... The first World Record in the Mens 50 metres Freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1976. ...

She subsequently attended the University of Florida, where she received 28 All-American honors.-1... An All-America team is a sports team composed of star players. ...

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. This article is about the television network. ... ESPN, formerly an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is an American cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. ... OLN (Outdoor Life Network) is a Canadian cable television specialty channel. ... Fox News redirects here. ... This article is about the game. ... RSN Television was established in 1986 as Resort Sports Network. ... The first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Mathews at bat in Milwaukee County Stadium. ... Veronica Varekova, Elle Macpherson, Rebecca Romijn, Rachel Hunter, Daniela Pestova, Elsa Benitez, Carolyn Murphy and Yamila Diaz, 2006; Heidi Klum and Maria Sharapova are in the insets. ...

Another comeback for a fifth Olympics

At age 41, Dara Torres returned to the pool to obtain a spot in her fifth Olympic games, unprecedented for an American female swimmer. She won the 100 m freestyle in a time of 53.78 seconds. The American record in that event is 53.39 seconds. Her Olympic career now spans 24 years. On July 5th, she qualified for the finals on 50 m freestyle to be held on July 6th. In that semi-final she broke the American record with a time of 24.38 seconds. On July 6th in the finals she broke that record for the 9th time, setting it at 24.25 seconds and winning the top American women's spot in the 50 m freestyle. She will be going to Beijing for the Olympic games in August with Natalie Coughlin and Jessica Hardy.^[3] Torres' time of 24.25 is .28 seconds off the current world's best in the 50m, set by Australian Libby Trickett at the Australian Olympic Trials in March. 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. ...

Personal life

Torres and her partner, David Hoffman, have a daughter named Tessa Grace, born in April 2006.

Torres is Jewish on her father's side. She converted to Judaism before marrying her second husband, Israeli surgeon Itzhak Shasha, and in 2005 was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...

See also

• World record progression 50 metres freestyle

The first World Record in the Mens 50 metres Freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1976. ...

References

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External links

• Dara Torres Official Website
• Torres Is Getting Older, but Swimming Faster
• A Swimmer of a Certain Age