Annette Salmeen

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Personal information
Surname: Annette Elizabeth Salmeen
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Swimming style (s) : Butterfly, freestyle
College team: University of California, Los Angeles
Birthday: 7th December 1974
Place of birth: Ann Arbor , Michigan
Size: 1.70 m
Medal table
Olympic game 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Universiade 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Medals

Annette Elizabeth Salmeen (born December 7, 1974 in Ann Arbor, Michigan ) is an American biochemist, former Rhodes Scholar and gold medalist at the 1996 Olympic Games .

swim

Salmeen began competitive swimming when she was nine years old. At Huron High School in Ann Arbor, she was co-captain of the power swimming team for two years. In her high school, she won three 500-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly championships. She then went to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). There, too, she was co-captain, four-time All-American and NCAA champion over 200-yard butterfly. At the 1995 Universiade in Fukuoka , Japan , she won the bronze medal. Salmeen qualified for the US team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she won the gold medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. In the individual competition over 200 m butterfly, she took fourth place in the B final, totaling 12th overall.

Rhodes Scholarship

In 1997, she graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and received the Rhodes Scholarship for a Ph. D. in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford . During the four years at St John's College, Oxford , she was a member of the swim team and set nine records (3 × long distance and 6 × short distance). In 2001 she completed her doctorate.

Stanford University

She then went to Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow . In 2005 she was appointed to the board of directors of the United States Anti-Doping Agency . In 2015 she returned to teaching at Stanford University.

Web links

Annette Salmeen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annette Salmeen . In: SR / Olympic Sports . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
  2. ↑ Chris Foster: He takes Rhodes detour . Los Angeles Times. April 26, 2008. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b Annette Salmeen . Daily Bruin. June 9, 1997. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
  4. ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on January 29, 2010. Retrieved December 18, 2009. Huron High School, River Rat Hall of Fame, accessed December 18, 2009
  5. ↑ a b Archived copy . Archived from the original on July 5, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2009. Ann Arbor Swim Club profile
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110718113956/http://universiade.fjct.fit.ac.jp/results/res_sw/e/sw01221/sw15.html
  7. ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2009. UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame
  8. ↑ a b Archived copy . Archived from the original on August 13, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2014. UCLA Chemistry Department profile
  9. ↑ Oxonian Olympians . University of Oxford . Archived from the original on September 20, 2012. Retrieved on August 20, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Salmeen, Annette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salmeen, Annette Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist, former Rhodes Scholar and gold medalist at the 1996 Olympics
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Ann Arbor, Michigan