Jenny Thompson

Jenny Thompson is an American former competition swimmer and one of the most decorated Olympians in history, with twelve Olympic medals, eight of them gold, won at the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. She began swimming at age seven in Massachusetts, first appeared on the international scene at fourteen when she won the 50 meter freestyle at the 1987 Pan American Games, and held the world records in the 50 meter and 100 meter freestyle when she swam at the 1992 Games in Barcelona. She swam for Stanford University, where she received the 1994-95 Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, and she later earned a medical degree from Columbia University in 2006 and trained as a pediatric anesthesiologist.