Jessica Hardy

Jessica Hardy, full name Jessica Adele Hardy Meichtry, is an American competitive swimmer who specialises in breaststroke and freestyle events. She was born on 12 March 1987. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she earned a bronze medal in the 4x100 metre freestyle relay and a gold medal in the 4x100 metre medley relay. She has won twenty-eight medals in major international competition, fourteen gold, nine silver and five bronze, across the Olympics, the World Championships and the Pan Pacific Championships. She served a twelve month suspension in 2008 and 2009 for an anti-doping rule violation at the 2008 Olympic Trials, and on her return she set world records in the 50 and 100 metre breaststroke at the 2009 U.S. Open.