Dara Torres
Dara Torres 
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Dara Torres after winning the silver medal in the 50 meter freestyle race at the Beijing Olympic Games |
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| Surname: | Dara Grace Torres | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname (s): | DT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 United States
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| Swimming style (s) : | Butterfly , freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team: | University of Florida | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | April 15, 1967 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Beverly Hills , California , United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.80 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 68 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967 in Beverly Hills ) is an American swimmer and sports commentator.
Career
She is the only US female swimmer to have competed in five Summer Olympics ( 1984 , 1988 , 1992 , 2000 , 2008 ), winning four gold, four silver and four bronze medals. She is also the oldest ever Olympic swimming medal winner. In the summer of 2008 she was able to qualify as a US champion over 100 meters and runner-up over 50 meters freestyle for her fifth Olympic Games.
At the age of 14 she swam her first world record, at 17 she was an Olympic champion in her hometown of Los Angeles. At the age of 25, she stopped playing top-class sport, only to take part in the Olympic Games again in Sydney 7 years later and to win five more medals. In April 2006 she gave birth to her daughter Tessa. You owe your qualification for the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 to your own information using a special stretching method. In Beijing she won a silver medal in each of the disciplines of 4 x 100 meters freestyle relay, 50 meters freestyle and 4 x 100 meter medley relay.
Torres was the first athlete in the Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated alongside the usual Models occurred and therefore is one of the glamourösesten athletes of her generation.
literature
- PH Mullen: "Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory", 2003, ISBN 0-312-31116-8 .
Web links
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame - [1]
- Official website (English)
- Dara Torres in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
- Dara Torres in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Athlete biography ( memento of the original from June 17, 2012) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the United States Swimming Federation US Swimm ( January 2008, visited July 6, 2008 )
- ↑ ( DER SPIEGEL, mother of all comebacks, 31/2008 )
- ↑ Raik Hannemann: Dara Torres - The Most Glamorous Swimmer of All Time , Welt-Online from November 14, 2007 ( visited July 5, 2008 )
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| SURNAME | Torres, Dara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Torres, Dara Grace (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California , United States |