Amanda Beard

Amanda Beard, who also used the married name Amanda Brown after 2009, is an American swimmer and a seven-time Olympic medallist with two gold, four silver and one bronze medal. She was born on 29 October 1981 and is a former world record holder in the 200 metre breaststroke in the long course pool. Across the Olympics, the World Championships, the Pan Pacific Championships and the Summer Universiade she captured twenty-one medals in major international competition, five gold, thirteen silver and three bronze. Outside the pool she had brief careers in modelling, advertising and broadcasting, and she has worked as a swimming coach and instructor.