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Natalie Coughlin

Personal information
Full name	Natalie Anne Coughlin
Nationality	United States
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Medal record Women's Swimming Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 100 m backstroke 2008 Beijing 200 m backstroke 2008 Beijing 4 x 100 m freestyle relay 2004 Athens 100 m backstroke 2004 Athens 4 x 200 m freestyle relay 2004 Athens 4 x 100 m freestyle relay 2004 Athens 4 x 100 m medley relay 2004 Athens 100 m freestyle World Championships 2001 Fukuoka 100 m backstroke 2001 Fukuoka 4 x 100 m medley relay 2001 Fukuoka 50 m backstroke 2003 Barcelona 4 x 100 m freestyle relay 2003 Barcelona 4 x 100 m medley relay 2005 Montreal 4 x 200 m freestyle relay 2005 Montreal 4 x 100 m medley relay 2005 Montreal 100 m freestyle 2005 Montreal 100 m backstroke 2005 Montreal 4 x 100 m freestyle relay 2007 Melbourne 100 m backstroke 2007 Melbourne 4 x 200 m freestyle relay 2007 Melbourne 4 x 100 m freestyle relay 2007 Melbourne 4 x 100 m medley relay 2007 Melbourne 100 m butterfly

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. At the 2008 Summer Olympics as of August 12, she has won a gold medal in the 100 meter backstroke, becoming the first woman to ever win a gold in that event two years in a row. 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.

Biography

Coughlin is originally from Concord, California and is of Filipino and Irish heritage. As of April 2008, she is engaged to Crow Canyon Sharks coach Ethan Hall; they are planning an April 2009 wedding.("Coughlin Overcomes Fear in Individual Medley". Retrieved 2008-07-15.)

Prior to the 2004 Olympics, 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 twelve 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. Coughlin won a silver medal in the 2008 Olympics in the 4x100m relay.

2004 Summer Olympics

• WR: World Record; AR: American Record

• ** Coughlin set the Olympic Record (1:00.17) in the semi-finals.

• *** Coughlin set a new Olympic Record for the 100m backstroke (59.68) in the relay lead-off leg.

2008 Summer Olympics

Coughlin won the gold medal in the 100m backstroke at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, becoming the first woman to retain the gold medal postion in that event. She had lost her world record to Kirsty Coventry, the eventual silver medallist, in the semi-final.

Other Records

Coughlin set her latest world record in the 100 meter backstroke at the 2008 summer Olympic trials "McGregory,Coughlin set worlds records". Retrieved 2008-07-01.. She is the first woman ever to go under 59 seconds in the 100 meter backstroke. She also holds world records in the 100 meter individual medley and as a member of the 4x200m freestyle relay as well as numerous US swimming records.

References

1. "2004 Olympic Games swimming results". Retrieved 2007-07-22.
2. "Montreal 2005 Results". Retrieved 2007-06-09.
3. "12th FINA World Championships". Retrieved 2007-06-09.
4. "Natalie Coughlin: Like Fish to Olympic Waters". Retrieved 2008-07-08.

Coughlin won the 100m backstroke at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, just out touching Zimbabwe swimmer Kirsty Conventry.

See also

• World records in swimming
• United States records in swimming

External links

• Natalie-Coughlin.com
• Natalie Coughlin at Team USA (archived)
• TIME: The Olympians, Natalie Coughlin

Records
Preceded by He Cihong	Women's 100 metre backstroke world record holder (long course) August 13, 2002 – June 30, 2008	Succeeded by Hayley McGregory
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 – present	Succeeded byIncumbent
Preceded by Hayley McGregory	Women's 100 metre backstroke world record holder (long course) June 30, 2008 – August 11, 2008	Succeeded by Kirsty Coventry
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

• 1982 births
• Living people
• People from Florida
• Filipino American sportspeople
• American swimmers
• American backstroke swimmers
• American freestyle swimmers
• American butterfly swimmers
• American medley swimmers
• Olympic swimmers of the United States
• Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists for the United States
• Olympic silver medalists for the United States
• Olympic bronze medalists for the United States
• Swimming World World Swimmers of the Year
• University of California, Berkeley alumni
• World record holders in swimming
• Concord, California
• American Christians