Dana Vollmer

Dana Vollmer is an American former competition swimmer, born in Syracuse, New York in 1987 and raised in Granbury, Texas. She swam for the University of California, Berkeley and became a five-time Olympic gold medalist. Her first gold came in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay at the 2004 Games in Athens, and at London in 2012 she set a world record on her way to winning the 100 metre butterfly, adding golds in the medley and freestyle relays. She also won three medals including a gold at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. In all she won thirty-two medals in major international competition, nineteen of them gold, which makes her one of the most decorated female Olympians in swimming.