Jenna Johnson

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Jenna Johnson

Personal information
Full name	Jenna Leigh Johnson
National team	United States
Born	(1967-09-11) September 11, 1967 Santa Rosa, California
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	139 lb (63 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly, freestyle
Club	Industry Hills Aquatic Club
College team	Stanford University
Medal record Women's swimming Representing the United States Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles 4x100 m freestyle 1984 Los Angeles 4x100 m medley 1984 Los Angeles 100 m butterfly World Championships (LC) 1986 Madrid 100 m freestyle 1986 Madrid 4x100 m freestyle 1986 Madrid 4x100 m medley Pan Pacific Championships 1985 Tokyo 100 m freestyle 1985 Tokyo 4x100 m freestyle 1987 Brisbane 4x100 m freestyle 1989 Tokyo 4x100 m medley 1987 Brisbane 100 m freestyle 1987 Brisbane 100 m butterfly 1989 Tokyo 100 m butterfly Summer Universiade 1985 Kobe 4x100 m freestyle 1985 Kobe 4x100 m medley 1985 Kobe 100 m freestyle

Jenna Leigh Johnson (born September 11, 1967) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.

As a 16-year-old, Johnson represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She won three medals: a gold medal in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay, and a silver medal in the 100-meter butterfly.

She attended and swam for Ursuline High School in Santa Rosa her freshman and sophomore years. She swam for the Santa Rosa Neptunes Swim Club in Santa Rosa from age 12-15. She is an alumna of Whittier Christian High School, where in 1984 she set the national record of 53.95 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly and the D1 record of 23.07 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle. While living in Southern California, she trained at the Industry Hills Aquatic Club in the City of Industry, California. She received an athletic scholarship to attend Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Pacific-10 Conference competition. As a 19-year-old, she received the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year in 1985–86, was a runner-up for the award the following year and won again in 1988–89.

Johnson made Rivals.com's list for the "Top 100 Female Athletes In State History."

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
• List of Stanford University people
• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)

External links

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jenna Johnson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2015-05-23.