Birth Date : 29 October, 1981
Birth Place : Newport Beach, CA, United States
Height : 1.72 m / 5'8
Weight : 58 kg / 128 lbs
Education : Retail and Consumer Sciences - University of Arizona: Tuscon, Arizona, USA
Olympic event : Swimming
Club : Irvine Novas/Tuscan Ford, Irvine, California, USA (USA Swimming 19/05/04, amandabeard.net 19/05/04)
Coach : David Salo, USA
With her placement on the 2004 Olympic team in Athens at age 22, Amanda Beard is already a three-time Olympian. She became the second youngest Olympic medalist in American swimming history when at the age of 14 she won two silver medals and one gold medal at the 1996 Games
In 2000, she added a bronze medal in the 200-meter breaststroke to her Olympic credits. At the Olympic Trials in Long Beach, she broke the world record in that same event.
Olympic Games
1996: gold medal, 400-meter medley relay; silver medal, 100-meter breaststroke; silver medal, 200-meter breaststroke
2000: bronze medal, 200-meter breaststroke
World Championships
2003: gold medal, 200-meter breaststroke; silver medal, 100-meter breaststroke; silver medal, 400-meter medley relay
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