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Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967) is an American former competitive swimmer, who is a 12-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in three events.Torres is the first swimmer to represent the United States in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and at age 41, the oldest swimmer to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team.
In baseball, Latinos make up the largest minority group and many Latinos have become stars in the league. In 2008, 27 percent of MLB players were of Latino heritage. Other sports such as basketball, hockey, and football are seeing a rise in the participation of Latino/a athletes, although they still remain a minority within the leagues.
In August 2007, Ochoa won her first major championship at the historic home of golf, the Old Course at St Andrews, with a wire-to-wire win by four shots at the Women's British Open. [28] She won the next two LPGA events, the CN Canadian Women's Open and the Safeway Classic , the first to win three consecutive events since Sörenstam in 2005.
Latino athletes on Team USA were part of team events that earned the U.S. two gold medals and one silver medal at the Games. Latinos on Team USA: 2 gold, 1 silver Argentina: 1 gold, 1 gold, 1 bronze
In addition to becoming the league’s first Hispanic quarterback in 1960 with the Raiders, Flores also became the first Hispanic head coach in NFL history and the first to win a Super Bowl.
Flores won four Super Bowls in his playing and coaching careers. He and Mike Ditka are the only two people in NFL history to win a Super Bowl as a player, assistant coach, and head coach (Flores won Super Bowl IV as a player for the Kansas City Chiefs , Super Bowl XI as an assistant coach of the Raiders, and Super Bowl XV and Super Bowl XVIII ...
He won a share of the Golden League million dollar-jackpot in 2002 after winning all 7 races. [9] At the 2003 Pan American Games, Sánchez won the Dominican Republic's first gold medal at the competition and also broke the Pan American Games record in the 400 m hurdles. [10] [11] He was named Track and Field News Track & Field Athlete of the ...
The second medal she won was a gold medal in the 200-metre butterfly, the same event she won gold in at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio, on 27 July. [36] Belmonte was highlighted by FINA as shining on day five of the swimming competitions for her win. [37] Belmonte shared her excitement about the win with Diario AS, "I still can't believe ...