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Nancy Lynn Hogshead-Makar (née Hogshead, born April 17, 1962) is an American swimmer who represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics, where she won three gold medals and one silver medal. She is currently the CEO of Champion Women, an organization leading targeted efforts to advocate for equality and accountability in sports.
This was the first Olympic Games at which only two swimmers per country, per event, were permitted; previously, three swimmers were allowed and many countries would sweep the medal stand. In addition, the 200-metre individual medley for both men and women returned to the program from a twelve-year absence, following a proposal by the United ...
Theresa Andrews (born August 25, 1962) is an American former competitive swimmer and Olympic champion. Raised in Maryland, Andrews gained prominence as a national collegiate champion when competing for the University of Florida. In international competition, she was a backstroke specialist who won two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.It was the nineteenth time that Team USA participated, having boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics. 522 competitors, 339 men and 183 women, took part in 217 events in 25 sports.
Torres was an Olympic swimmer for the US team between 1984 and 2008. During those years, she earned four gold medals, four silver medals, and four bronze medals. Natalie Coughlin is another ...
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.
For the 1980 Olympics, her training yardage ranged from 16,000 to 20,000 meters daily, similar to the Olympic training yardage for many men swimmers. [3] At the 1984 Olympic trials in Indianapolis, Indiana, she finished second to Tracy Caulkins 400 IM, earning her a spot on the Olympic Team. Her time in the 400-meter IM was 4:46.36 in the ...
Since 1984, the number of Summer Olympic events for women has nearly tripled, to 151, while last summer’s Paris Games was the first to reach gender parity, with women accounting for half of the ...