Janet Evans

Janet Evans is an American former competition swimmer who swam for Stanford University from 1989 to 1992 and specialized in distance freestyle. Born in Fullerton, California in 1971, she grew up in Placentia and was setting national age group records by the age of eleven. She was a world champion and world record holder, and in the late 1980s the first woman to hold the 400, 800 and 1500 metre freestyle world records at the same time. She won four Olympic golds in the 400 and 800 metre freestyle at the 1988 and 1992 Games, including three at Seoul in 1988, and was the first American woman to win four individual Olympic gold medals in swimming.