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
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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. She will be one to watch in Athens.
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
1995: silver medal, 400-meter medley relay; bronze medal, 100-meter breaststroke; bronze medal, 200-meter breaststroke
In August, 2010, she came out of retirement to compete at the 2010 Conoco Phillips National Championships. She finished second in the 200 breast finals at 2:26.50, qualifying her for the Pan Pac Team to represent the USA later in the month
Modeling and Advertising
Her modeling work has included appearances in FHM[8], the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, and she posed nude for the July 2007 issue of Playboy magazine.[9]
Personal life
Beard is a vegetarian.[14] She is married to photographer Sacha Brown. On September 15, 2009, the couple welcomed their first child, a boy named Blaise Ray Brown.
Personal bests
Beard's personal bests in long-course meters are:
100 m breaststroke: 1:07.42 Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships
200 m breaststroke: 2:22.44 US Olympic Swimming Trials 2004
200 m individual medley: 2:11.70 Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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