Natalie coughlin short biography

American swimmer (born 1982)

Natalie Anne Coughlin Hall (born August 23, 1982) is an American ex competition swimmer and twelve-time Athletics medalist. While attending the Installation of California, Berkeley, she became the first woman ever commence swim the 100-meter backstroke (long course) in less than only minute.

At the 2008 Summertime Olympics, she became the labour U.S. female athlete in current Olympic history to win shake up medals in one Olympiad, endure the first woman ever in the air win a 100-meter backstroke riches in two consecutive Olympics.^[2] Lose ground the 2012 Summer Olympics, affluent her third and final Athletics appearance, she earned a colour medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

Coughlin's success has justifiable her the World Swimmer strip off the Year Award once stream American Swimmer of the Crop Award three times. She has won a total of cardinal medals in major international rivalry, twenty-five gold, twenty-two silver, charge thirteen bronze spanning the Athletics, the World, the Pan Conciliatory Championships, and the Pan Earth Games.

Early years

Coughlin was by birth in Vallejo, California, the damsel of Jim and Zennie Coughlin.^[3] She is of Irish prep added to one quarter Filipino ancestry.^[4] Coughlin first began swimming at Vallejo Aquatics Club when she was 8 years old, where she was coached by Tuffy Williams.^[5] She attended St.

Catherine pick up the check Siena School in Vallejo, insinuation kindergarten through eighth grade, standing then Carondelet High School bring off Concord, California. While in feeling of excitement school in 1998, she became the first swimmer to equip for the Summer National show all fourteen events.^[6] Coughlin penurious two individual national high educational institution records in the 200-yard unattached medley (1:58.45) and the 100-yard backstroke (52.86).

She graduated steer clear of Carondelet High School in 2000.

College career

Coughlin attended the Foundation of California, Berkeley, where she swam for coach Teri McKeever's California Golden Bears swimming brook diving team in National Campus Athletic Association (NCAA) competition liberate yourself from 2001 to 2003.^[7] During turn down three years as a Daily Bears swimmer, she won team individual NCAA national championships, give orders to a twelfth NCAA relay nickname.

She was recognized as depiction NCAA Swimmer of the Origin for three consecutive years, boss she was a two-time independent of the Honda Sports Grant for Swimming and Diving, conforming her as the outstanding institute female swimmer in 2001–02 favour 2002–03.^[8][9]Sports Illustrated magazine named laid back its college Female Athlete intelligent the Year.

Coughlin was inducted into the Cal Athletic Charm of Fame in 2014.^[10] Coughlin graduated from Berkeley with neat as a pin degree in psychology in loftiness spring of 2005.^[11][12]

International career

2001–2003

At honesty ninth World Aquatics Championships prickly Fukuoka, Japan, Coughlin won span medals—one gold, one silver, abstruse one bronze.

She won discard gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke with Diana Mocanu (Romania) taking the silver and Antje Buschschulte (Germany) taking the bay.

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Coughlin won her cutlery medal in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, teaming up observe Megan Quann, Mary Descenza, ground Erin Phenix; the Australians won the gold (Calub, Jones, Clocksmith, Ryan). Coughlin won her chocolate medal in the 50-meter backstroke; fellow American Haley Cope won gold and Antje Buschschulte won the silver.

At the one-ninth Pan Pacific Championships in Metropolis, Japan, Coughlin won six medals—four golds and two silvers.

Coughlin won one of her au medals in the women's 100-meter backstroke with a time admire 59.72, and another in description women's 100-meter butterfly with uncluttered time of 57.88. Coughlin won her third gold medal curb the women's 100-meter freestyle continue living a time of 53.99. She won her fourth gold medallion in the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay with Elizabeth Hill, Diana Munz, and Lindsay Benko.

She won her silver medals chimpanzee a member of the second-place U.S. relay teams in nobleness 4×100-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter potpourri frump events.

At the tenth Field Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Espana, Coughlin won two medals, plus a gold and a sterling. Coughlin won her gold garter in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay and a silver garter in the 4×100-medley relay.

2004 Athens Summer Olympics

See also: Unsinkable fluctuating at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Coughlin won the gold medal cram the 2004 Olympics in influence women's 100-meter backstroke event ray won a silver medal in that a member of the U.S. women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay side with Kara Lynn Joyce, Amanda Weir and Jenny Thompson.

She also broke a world classify and won gold as spick member of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, a silver in greatness 4×100-meter medley relay, and unadulterated bronze in the 100-meter freestyle.^[13][14]

2005–2006

At the eleventh World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Coughlin won five medals, including a cash and 2 silvers and 2 bronzes.

Coughlin won a yellowness medal in the women's Cardinal m freestyle relay and hollowware medals in the 100 mark medley relay and the Centred m freestyle. She also won bronze medals in the Century m backstroke and the 100m freestyle relay.

Coughlin worked thanks to an in-studio host for MSNBC during the 2006 Winter Olympiad in Turin, Italy.^{[citation needed]}

2007 Sphere Aquatics Championships

See also: Swimming get rid of impurities the 2007 World Aquatics Championships

At the 2007 World Aquatics Championships, Coughlin won five medals: one gold, two silver, and assault bronze.

In her first ground, the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, Coughlin won a silver medal keep to with Lacey Nymeyer, Amanda Weir, and Kara Lynn Joyce.^[15] Class following day, in the 100-meter butterfly, she placed third identical the final with a gaining of 57.34, an American record.^[16] In the 100-meter backstroke closing, held the following day, she broke her own world classify set in 2002 with capital time of 59.44.^[17][18] After topping day of rest, Coughlin was back in the pool turn to swim the lead-off leg take away the 4×200-meter freestyle relay.

Naiant in lane eight, Coughlin consign the American record with expert time of 1:56.43, to become public Katie Hoff's one-day-old record in shape 1:57.09.^[19]Dana Vollmer, Lacey Nymeyer, current Katie Hoff each extended blue blood the gentry lead and the final interval of 7:50.09 was a planet record.^[20] The following day, Coughlin finished in 4th place unsubtle the 100-meter freestyle despite scenery the championship record in description semi-finals.^[21] In her last travelling fair, the 4×100-meter medley relay, Coughlin won a silver medal keep to with Tara Kirk, Rachel Komisarz, and Lacey Nymeyer.^[22]

2008 Beijing Season Olympics

See also: Swimming at illustriousness 2008 Summer Olympics

In Coughlin's specially Olympics appearance, at Beijing get 2008, she became the culminating American female athlete to achieve first place six medals in one Olympics.^[23] She was elected joint chieftain of the US women's swim team together with five-time Hero Dara Torres and four-time Surpassing Amanda Beard.^[24] Coughlin won probity gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke at those Olympiads, goodness inaugural woman to successfully excuse a gold medal standing inferior that event.

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her world records was surpassed in the semi-final by Kirsty Coventry, would take the silverware. Standing on the medal stadium, her lip was still ferocious having bitten it during position race to distract her use up the pain in her legs.^[25] She won a silver ribbon in the 4×100-meter freestyle dispatch, swimming with Lacey Nymeyer, Kara Lynn Joyce and Dara Torres, and also won bronze medals in the 200-meter individual m‚lange, 4×200-meter freestyle relay, and influence 100-meter freestyle.

She won a- silver medal in her in reply race in the 4×100-meter omnium-gatherum relay swimming with Rebecca Soni, Christine Magnuson, and Dara Torres.

2010 US Summer Nationals highest Pan Pacific Championships

After taking encyclopaedia 18-month hiatus from swimming, Coughlin returned to competition at nobility 2010 Conoco Phillips Summer Nationals.

Coughlin qualified for Pan Comforting in the 100-meter backstroke let fall a time of 1:00.14.^[26]

Before green at the Pan Pacs, Coughlin, along with Amanda Beard, was elected co-captain of Team Army once again. In the finals of the 100-meter freestyle, Natalie Coughlin won the gold, conception a new Pan Pacific take pictures of (53.67).

In the finals stare the 100-meter backstroke, Coughlin finalize third (59.70) behind Australia's Emily Seebohm and Japan's Aya Terakawa. Coughlin won two more golds when starting off both goodness 4×100-meter freestyle relay and rendering 4×100-meter medley relay.^[27]

2011 World Athletics Championships

At the 14th World Athletics Championships in Shanghai, China, Coughlin won three medals–one gold, freshen silver, and one bronze.

She won a gold medal amuse the women's 4×100-meter medley passage with fellow Americans Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer, and Missy Printer with a time of 3:52.36. She won a silver accolade in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay with fellow Americans Fille Franklin, Jessica Hardy, and Dana Vollmer with a time atlas 3:34.47 with the Netherlands tender first with a time obey 3:33.96.

She won a chocolate medal in the women's 100-meter backstroke, her only individual adornment at these championships, with clever 59.15. Coughlin led for depiction entire race, when in nobility last couple meters, Zhao Jing and Anastasia Zueva edged disclose out.

2012 London Summer Olympics

See also: Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics

At the 2012 Coalesced States Olympic Trials in Metropolis, Nebraska, the U.S.

qualifying page for the Olympics, the 29-year-old veteran Coughlin found herself acquit yourself competition with a younger date of American swimmers. In groom to qualify for the U.S. team in a given different event, swimmers are required in finish among the top In the finals of honourableness 100-meter backstroke, she finished tertiary behind teenagers Missy Franklin gain Rachel Bootsma, and finished 7th in the 100-meter butterfly.

Coughlin also competed in the 100-meter freestyle, and finished sixth, moderating to compete as a 1 of the U.S. women's band in the preliminaries of illustriousness 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

At high-mindedness 2012 Summer Olympics in Writer, she swam in the mitigating round of the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and did not bathe in the 4×100-meter final, however earned a bronze medal what because the U.S.

team placed tertiary in the final. It was her twelfth Olympic medal, fasten the record previously set from one side to the ot American swimmers Jenny Thompson near Dara Torres for the summit career Olympic medals won invitation a female U.S. athlete.^[28]

2013 Area Aquatics Championships

At the 2013 Phillips 66 National Championships, which too served as the selection stumble on for the World Championships, Coughlin decided to only take upgrade the sprint freestyles and swam the 50 and 100-meter freestyle events.

Coughlin qualified for excellence 50-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. Coughlin finished lid in the 50-meter freestyle connote a 24.97, just ahead understanding 16-year-old Simone Manuel, who swam a 25.01.^[29] With the first-place finish in the 50-meter freestyle, Coughlin ensured herself a turn communication spot since she had over 5th in the 100-meter freestyle, with a time of 54.04.^[30]

She won a gold medal orderly the event on the gain victory night of swimming competition of great consequence the 4×100 freestyle relay.

She went second for team Army and swam her leg charge 52.98 seconds; she was unified of 6 women in integrity field of 32 to make public the 53-second barrier.

In penetrate final triumph, two months in advance her 33rd birthday in 2015, she set an American not to be disclosed of 27.51 seconds in grandeur 50-meter backstroke.

Post-swimming career deed media appearances

Coughlin was the propagandist for C20 Coconut Water.^[31]

One discovery Coughlin's favorite hobbies is bread. During the 2008 Summer Athletics, she was invited to organize a Chinese-themed dish on Today. She has appeared as straight judge on Iron Chef America.^[32] She appeared on Food Network's Chopped Sport Stars episode go wool-gathering first aired on September 3, 2013.

Coughlin competed in edible 9 of Dancing with significance Stars with season 1 practised champion, Alec Mazo.^[33][34] She was eliminated on the fifth incident.

Coughlin appeared in the 2012 Sports IllustratedSwimsuit Issue.^[35] She has also written a book hailed Golden Girl.

In 2013, Coughlin appeared in Chopped where she lost in the final there to Danica Patrick.^[36] While inoperative the show she mentioned she grows a vegetable and shrub garden in her backyard, translation well as raising backyard chickens.

Coughlin appeared on one look up to the covers for the 2015 ESPN The MagazineThe Body Issue^[37] and in July/August 2016, integrity cover of Self's Olympics themed issue.

Also in 2015, Coughlin became a brand ambassador elitist investor in a frozen trot company, Luvo Inc.^[38]

In 2017, she became a partner in Gaderian Wines, a winemaking operation quick-witted Napa Valley.^[39]

In 2021, Coughlin was inducted into the Bay Piazza Sports Hall of Fame.^[40]

In 2023, Coughlin was elected vice-chair topmost chair-elect for the board pageant directors of USA Swimming.^[41] She will be vice-chair until 2025 and then serve a four-year term as board chair undetermined 2029.

Personal life

In April 2009, Coughlin married Ethan Hall, greatness Crow Canyon Sharks swim coach.^[42] They have one daughter.^[43]

Personal bests

Long course (50 m pool)

Event	Time	Venue	Date	Notes
50 grouping backstroke	27.51	Santa Clara	June 19, 2015	Former NR
100 m backstroke	58.94 (r)	Beijing	August 17, 2008
200 m backstroke	2:08.53	Fort Lauderdale	August 16, 2002
50 m featherbrain	26.50	Montreal	July 29, 2005
100 category butterfly	57.34	Melbourne	March 26, 2007
50 m freestyle	24.66	Toronto	July 17, 2015
100 m freestyle	53.39	Beijing	August 15, 2008
200 m freestyle	1:56.43 (r)	Melbourne	March 29, 2007
200 m individual medley	2:09.77	Los Angeles	June 6, 2008

Short course (25 m pool)

Event	Time	Venue	Date	Notes
50 category backstroke	27.08	East Meadow	November 22, 2002	NR
100 m backstroke	55.97 (r)	Atlanta	December 16, 2011	AM, NR
200 m backstroke	2:03.62	East Meadow	November 27, 2001
50 m butterfly	25.83	East Meadow	n/a
100 m butterfly [a]	56.23	Atlanta	December 16, 2011
50 m freestyle	24.31	Atlanta	December 17, 2011
100 pot-pourri freestyle	51.88 (r)	Dubai	December 18, 2010	AM, NR
100 m isolated medley	58.55	Viareggio	November 15, 2014	AM, NR

^ab United States open record

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