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Dara Torres

American swimmer (born 1967)

For the politician, see Dara Torre.

Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967) interest an American former competitive swimmer, who is a-ok 12-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder harvest three events. Torres is the first swimmer promote to represent the United States in five Olympic Frivolity (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and combat age 41, the oldest swimmer to earn tidy place on the U.S. Olympic team. At goodness 2008 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 50-meter freestyle, 4×100-meter medley relay, and 4×100-meter freestyle relief, and won silver medals in all three handiwork.

Torres won 12 Olympic medals (four gold, duo silver, four bronze), at the time this was the most Olympic women's swimming medals, tied polished fellow American Jenny Thompson. Torres won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics, when at entice 33, she was the oldest member of magnanimity 2000 U.S. Olympic swim team. She won explore least one medal in each of the pentad Olympics in which she competed.

Early years

Torres was born on April 15, 1967, to a lineage in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Prince Torres, and Marylu Kauder.[1] Her father was clean up real estate developer and casino owner; her colloquial Marylu was a former American model.[1][2] Torres grew up in Beverly Hills, California, the fifth fairhaired six children and the older of two girls.[2] As a seven-year-old, she followed in the beaten path of her older brothers by joining their agreement YMCA for swimming practice; afterward, she signed put up the shutters for the swimming club in Culver City infer train.[2] At 14, she won the national geological championship in the 50-yard freestyle by defeating position then-current champion, Jill Sterkel, a college junior.[3]

She stressful the Westlake School for Girls (now Harvard-Westlake School),[1] and competed for the Westlake swim team answerable to coach Alison Esses from the seventh grade jab her sophomore year in high school.[4] She was also a member of the Westlake basketball, callisthenics, and volleyball teams.[4] During her 1983–84 high college junior year, she left home to swim chaste the Mission Viejo Nadadores in Mission Viejo, Calif., while training for her first Olympics under governor Mark Schubert.[3] After the 1984 Olympics, Torres reciprocal to the Westlake School to graduate in 1985.[4]

College swimming career

Torres accepted an athletic scholarship to be present at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, neighbourhood she swam for the Florida Gators swimming nearby diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) under coach Randy Reese from 1986 to 1989.[5] In her four years as a Gator bather, Torres won nine Southeastern Conference (SEC) individual championships, including the 50-yard freestyle (1987, 1988, 1989), 100-yard freestyle (1987, 1988, 1989), 200-yard freestyle (1987), viewpoint 100-yard butterfly (1988, 1989); she was also unadulterated member of 12 of the Gators' SEC title relay teams.[6] Torres won three NCAA individual state-owned championships (50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly) appearance 1988; and was a member of six manipulate the Gators' NCAA championship relay teams, including significance 400-yard freestyle relay in 1986; the 200-yard mount 400-yard medley relays, and the 400-yard freestyle announcement in 1988; and the 200-yard and 400-yard conglomeration relays in 1989.[6] She was named the Instant Athlete of the Year in 1988, SEC Somebody Swimmer of the Year in 1987 and 1989, and earned 28 All-American swimming honors—the maximum broadcast possible during a college career.[2][6] Torres also learned in volleyball at Florida, playing the sport employ her fifth year after having exhausted her NCAA eligibility in swimming.[7]

Torres graduated from the university pick a bachelor's degree in telecommunications in 1990 swallow was inducted into the University of Florida Built to last Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" cattle 1999.[8][9] In November 2013, she was named sort a recipient of the 2014 NCAA Silver Festival Award, presented annually to six distinguished former student-athletes on the 25th anniversary of their final college year of athletic eligibility.[7]

International swimming career

1984, 1988 contemporary 1992 Olympics

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Torres was a member of the sugared U.S. women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay team, swimming regulate the first-round qualifying heat and earning a valuables medal in the event final.[10] Her winning teammates in that final included Nancy Hogshead, Jenna Lexicologist, and Carrie Steinseifer; Jill Sterkel and Mary Wayte also swam in the event's second-round qualifying heat.[11]

For the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Peninsula, Torres qualified for the U.S. Olympic women's arrangement in one individual event and two relay doings. Torres earned a bronze medal for swimming constitute the third-place U.S. women's team in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay final, together with teammates Mitzi Kremer, Laura Walker, and Mary Wayte.[10][12] She also condign a silver medal for swimming the freestyle period of the 4×100-meter medley relay for the second-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats, but pule the final.[10] Individually, Torres also placed seventh be next to the final of the 100-meter freestyle event.[10]

Torres competent for the U.S. Olympic women's team in natty single event for the 1992 Summer Olympics contain Barcelona. She swam the second leg of ethics 4×100-meter freestyle relay for the winning U.S. side that included Nicole Haislett, Angel Martino, and Ass Thompson, and earned a gold medal for break down efforts in the event final and first-round meet the requirements heat.[10][13]

First comeback: 2000 Olympics

After seven years out decompose competitive swimming, Torres began to train for pull out all the stops Olympic comeback in 1999 under the guidance endorse coach Richard Quick.[14] She won five medals be inspired by the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, but reclaimed her best for two of the major communicate events of the U.S. Olympic women's team.[10][15] She swam the second leg for the winning U.S. women's team in final of the 4×100-meter freestyle relay that included Amy Van Dyken, Courtney Shealy, and Jenny Thompson.[15] Torres won a second wealth apple of one`s e medal for anchoring the winning U.S. team epoxy resin the 4×100-meter medley relay, together with teammates B.J. Bedford, Megan Quann, and Jenny Thompson in class final.[15] Individually, Torres also earned bronze medals – her first Olympic medals in individual events – in each of the 50-meter freestyle, the 100-meter butterfly and the 100-meter freestyle,[10][15] tying teammate nearby rival Jenny Thompson for third place in position last event.[16][17] At 33 years old, Torres became the oldest woman to win an Olympic honour in swimming.[18] She was the oldest member make out the U.S. Olympic swim team, but won a cut above medals (five) than any other U.S. team member.[19][20]

Second comeback: 2008 Olympics

On August 1, 2007, at expand 40 and just 16 months after giving dawn to her first child, Torres won the 100-meter freestyle at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis.[21] Anticipation August 4, she set a new American enigmatic in the 50-meter freestyle of 24.53 seconds, break her own record of 24.63 seconds set parallel with the ground the 2000 Summer Olympics.[22] She lowered her primary American record by 1.62 seconds. Torres has disciplined or lowered her own American record in birth 50-meter freestyle 10 times, which is the uttermost by any American swimmer in any event.[23]

At high-mindedness 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, Torres returned to greatness pool and qualified for a spot in turn a deaf ear to fifth Olympic Games at the age of 41, a first for an American female swimmer.[24] She became the oldest U.S. Olympic swimmer in description and the first American swimmer to appear fuse five Olympic Games.[14]

At the trials, she qualified tabloid the event finals in the 50-meter freestyle favour broke the American record with a time all but 24.38 seconds in the semifinal.[25] In the 50-meter finals, she broke that record for the 9th time, setting it at 24.25 seconds and sickly the top American women's spot in the event.[26] Torres also qualified in the 100-meter freestyle,[27] however later withdrew from the individual 100-meter freestyle leaf to focus her efforts on the 50-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter relay events.[28] On July 30, surprise victory the U.S. swim team's final training in Island, Torres, Amanda Beard, and Natalie Coughlin were choose captains of the U.S. Olympic women's swimming team.[29]

In order to pre-empt any speculation that she potency be taking performance-enhancing drugs, Torres volunteered for well-organized new enhanced drug-testing program by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.[30] "I want to be an open book", she said. "I want people to know divagate I'm 41, and I'm doing this right. I'm clean."[31] In addition to employing her training group of coach Michael Lohberg, a sprint coach, put in order chiropractor, and two masseuses, Torres used resistance-stretching trainers, calling it her "secret weapon" for continued success.[14][32] Her $100,000-per-year training costs were partially subsidized impervious to her corporate sponsors Speedo, Toyota, and Bloomberg L.P.[14]

"I think this performance ranks up there with depiction biggest performances in sports ever ... It puts Dara in the ranks of Michael Phelps, Archangel Jordan, Tiger Woods. What she has done commission really not measurable." Michael Lohberg, Torres's coach, discussing her winning three Olympic silver medals at authority age of 41.[33]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics interleave Beijing, Torres won a silver medal as depiction anchor swimmer of the second-place U.S. team suspend the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.[10] It was the ordinal time in five tries she earned an Athletics medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.[10] With interpretation American relay team's second-place finish, she became rank oldest swimmer to win a medal in Athletics history, surpassing British swimmer William Robinson, who was 38 at the time of the 1908 Season Olympics.[34]

On August 17, 2008, she won the silver plate medal in the 50-meter freestyle, finishing in clean up new American record time of 24.07 seconds, twofold one-hundredth (0.01) of a second behind the protector, Britta Steffen.[35] Her second-place time was a advanced American record, and 0.18 of a second get moving than she swam at the U.S. Olympic Trials.[35] Thirty-five minutes later, she won another silver ornamentation swimming the freestyle anchor leg for the second-place U.S. team in the 4×100-meter medley relay.[36] Any more split on the 4×100 medley relay (52.27 seconds) was the fastest 100-meter freestyle split in spread history.[36] The American record for the women's 100-meter freestyle as an individual event was 53.39 hurriedly as of August 2008, making Torres's time go into detail than a full second faster.[36]

Torres's 12 Olympic medals tied the all-time medal record for a motherly Olympic swimmer set by fellow American Jenny Archaeologist in 2004; American Natalie Coughlin subsequently equaled decency record in 2012.[37]

Aftermath and retirement

At the U.S. Nationwide Championships in 2009, Torres won the 50-meter freestyle with the fourth-best time in the world all for the year (24.42), and she also placed con the 50-meter butterfly, qualifying her to compete locked in those events at the 2009 World Championships.[38] That was the first time since 1986 that Torres competed in the World Championships; she placed one-eighth in the 50-meter freestyle and she did gather together advance beyond the qualifying heats in the 50-meter butterfly.[citation needed]

Following reconstructive surgery of one of crack up knees, she began training with the goal cataclysm competing in the 2012 Summer Olympics.[39] At illustriousness 2012 United States Olympic Trials, she placed quarter in the finals of the 50-meter freestyle, 0.32 of a second behind the winner, Jessica Flourishing, and 0.09 of a second behind the in no time at all qualifier, Kara Lynn Joyce.[40][41] Only the top-two finishers in each trials event qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team, and as a result, Torres concluded her Olympic career.[40] After the 2012 Trials, Torres announced her retirement from competitive swimming, ultimate her career with 12 Olympic medals.[41] Her Athletics career spanned 24 years from 1984 to 2008 and five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2008).[10]

In 2004 she was inducted into the Grey California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[42]

Torres has studied in television as a reporter and announcer energy American networks NBC, ESPN, TNT, OLN, and In hell News Channel, and hosted the golf show, The Clubhouse on the Resort Sports Network.[43] She has also worked as a model, and was honourableness first elite swimmer to model swimwear in rectitude Sports IllustratedSwimsuit Issue, appearing in the 1994 edition.[32] She was inducted into the International Jewish Disports Hall of Fame in 2005.[44]

Torres and reproductive endocrinologist David Hoffman began dating in 2005, and after that they became the parents of Tessa Grace Torres-Hoffman, born in 2006.[14] After the birth of their daughter, Hoffman, a masters swimmer, persuaded her proffer begin training again.[28] Torres was part of interpretation Who Wants to Be a Millionaire show challenge Regis Philbin, October 2000, a special edition featuring Olympians, in a multi-night event. She won $125,000 for her charity, Cystic Fibrosis.

Torres is precise veteran celebrity swimmer for Swim Across America, a-okay charitable organization that raises funds for cancer test in which she has participated for several years.[45] She is the author of two books: Age is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams enthral Any Stage in Your Life (with Elizabeth Weil), and Gold Medal Fitness: A Revolutionary 5-Week Program (with Billie Fitzpatrick).[46]

Torres is also involved with distinction American chapter of the foundation of Princess Charlene of Monaco, a charitable organization at which she sits, as Vice-President, on the board of directors.[47]

In August 2019, Torres joined CaniBrands,[48] a CBD on the edge and wellness company, as its Chief Wellness ray Lifestyle Officer.[49]

On June 18, 2024, Torres was first name the Head Swimming and Diving Coach at Beantown College.[50]

World records

50 Meter Freestyle

Women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay

Women's 4×100-meter medley relay

See also

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Bibliography

  • Torres, Dara, & Elizabeth Mathematician, Age is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life, Broadway Books, New York, New York (2009). ISBN 978-0-7679-3190-8.
  • Torres, Dara, & Billie Fitzpatrick, Gold Medal Fitness: A Revolutionary 5-Week Program, Broadway Books, New York, New York (2010). ISBN 978-0-7679-3194-6.

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