Abbey Weitzeil

Abbey Weitzeil is an American competition swimmer who specialises in sprint freestyle, born on 3 December 1996 and raised in Santa Clarita, California. She swam collegiately for the California Golden Bears from 2016 to 2020 and won the Honda Sports Award as the top female collegiate swimmer in her senior year. At the 2016 Rio Olympics she won silver in the 4x100 metre freestyle relay and gold for swimming in the preliminary heats of the 4x100 metre medley relay; at the 2020 Olympics held in Tokyo in 2021 she won silver in the medley relay and bronze in the freestyle relay, swimming in both finals. She also won medals at the 2014 and 2021 World Short Course Championships and the 2015 World Championships, and holds the American record in the 50 yard freestyle and a share of the national record in the 4x100 metre freestyle relay.