Natalie Coughlin

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Natalie Coughlin Personal information Full name: Natalie Coughlin Nationality:  United States Date of birth: August 23, 1982 (1982-08-23) (age 25) Place of birth: Emeryville, California, United States Height: 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)

Medal record Women's Swimming Olympic Games Bronze 2004 Athens[1] 100 m freestyle Template:MedalSilverBoard 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 American 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. She is also engaged to Crow Canyon Sharks coach Ethan Hall

[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] 2004 Summer Olympics

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Natalie-Coughlin.com
• Natalie Coughlin's U.S. Olympic Team bio ... with three photo galleries
• TIME: The Olympians, Natalie Coughlin
• Videos & Results on SwimPassion.net

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