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- Birth nameDara Grace Torres
- Height1.80 m
- Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967) is an American former competitive swimmer who is a twelve-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in three events. Torres is the first swimmer to represent the United States in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and, at age 41, the oldest swimmer to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 50-meter freestyle, 4×100-meter medley relay, and 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and won silver medals in all three events.
Torres has won twelve Olympic medals (four gold, four silver, four bronze), one of three women with the most Olympic women's swimming medals. She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics when, at age 33, she was the oldest member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic Swim Team. She has also won at least one medal in each of the five Olympics in which she has competed, making her one of only a handful of Olympians to earn medals in five different Games.- IMDb mini biography by: Dibyayan Chakravorty
- SpousesItzhak Shasha(June 19, 2003 - December 2004) (divorced)Jeff Gowen(May 2, 1993 - ?) (divorced)
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- Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
- Won the gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in the Women's 4x100 Meter Freestyle Relay in swimming.
- Won a total of 12 Olympic medals (4 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze), spanning 5 Olympics (Los Angeles-1984, Seoul-1988, Barcelona-1992, Sidney-2000, Beijing-2008).
- Won the silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the Women's 4x100 Freestyle Relay, the Women's 4x100 Medley Relay, and the Women's 50 Meter Freestyle in swimming.
- Won the gold medal at the 2000 Sidney Olympics in the Women's 4x100 Meter Freestyle Relay and Women's 4x100 Medley Relay, and the bronze medal in the Women's 50 Meter Freestyle, the Women's 100 Meter Freestyle, and the Women's 100 Meter Butterfly in swimming.
- They may become harder to achieve, but your dreams can't stop because you've hit a certain age.
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