American competition swimmer, Natalie Coughlin, has twelve Olympic medals, tying her with former world record-holder in three events and who else?
Natalie Coughlin Natalie Anne Coughlin Hall (born August 23, 1982) is an American competition swimmer and twelve-time Olympic medalist. While attending the University of California, Berkeley, she became the first woman ever to swim the 100-meter backstroke (long course) in less than one minute—ten days before her 20th birthday in 2002. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she became the first U.S. female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympiad, and the first woman ever to win a 100-meter backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she earned a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. Her total of twelve Olympic medals ties her with Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres for the most all-time medals by a female swimmer.
Bill Barrett (swimmer) William Barrett (born 1960) is an American former competition swimmer who won a silver medal in the 200-meter individual medley at the 1982 World Aquatics Championships. In 1980, he won a national title in the same event and set a new world record. He also qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics in the 100-meter breaststroke, but could not compete because of the United States-led boycott over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The same year, "Swimming World Magazine" named him the American Swimmer of the Year.