Barbara Lindquist

Barbara Metz Lindquist, known as Barb, was born on 1 July 1969 in Wilmington, Delaware, and is a swimmer and triathlete from the United States. She swam for Stanford University and was on the swimmers' U.S. National Team until she left it in 1991. She became a professional triathlete in 1996 and from February 2003 through 2004 was ranked first in the world. At the 2004 Olympic triathlon she placed ninth, and she was on the U.S. world championship triathlon team ten times before retiring from competition in 2005. Afterwards she served as coach of the Under-23 National Triathlon Team and as the USAT Collegiate Recruitment Program Coordinator. She was inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame in 2010 and the International Triathlon Union Hall of Fame in 2017, and in 2012 Inside Triathlon ranked her tenth on its list of the sport's most influential people.