Jenny Thompson

Jenny Thompson
Personal information
Surname:	Jennifer Beth Thompson
Nation:	United States
Swimming style (s) :	Butterfly , freestyle
College team:	Stanford University
Birthday:	February 26, 1973
Place of birth:	Danvers , Massachusetts
Size:	1.78 m
Medal table
Olympic Summer Games 8 × 3 × 1 × Swimming world championships 7 × 5 × 2 × Short course world championships 11 × 5 × 2 × Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 25 × 7 × 2 × Pan American Games 2 × 0 × 1 ×

Jenny Thompson (born February 26, 1973 in Dover , New Hampshire , USA ) is an American swimmer .

Thompson was one of the most reliable swimmers on the international swimming scene in the 1990s. Although she was never an individual Olympic champion, no swimmer could collect more Olympic medals than she. Overall, they won eight gold medals with American squadrons at the Olympic Games in 1992 , 1996 (one of them for their commitment in advance of the medley relay) and 2000 . She also won the individual Olympic silver medals in the 100 m freestyle in 1992 in Barcelona and the bronze medal in the 100 m freestyle in 2000 in Sydney . With the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens , she won the 4 × 100 m medley relay silver medal behind Australia and another silver m for their forward use with the 4 x 100 freestyle relay.

Her most successful year as an individual swimmer, however, wasn't an Olympic year. In 1998 she became world champion over 100 m butterfly and 100 m freestyle at the swimming world championships.

See also

• List of the most successful summer Olympians

Web links

• Jenny Thompson in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Jenny Thompson in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)