Katie Meili

Katie Meili, born in 1991 in Carrollton, Texas, is a former American competitive swimmer who specialised in the 100 metre breaststroke. She graduated from Columbia University in 2013, won her first long course national title in 2015 and took gold in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, setting a Games record in the heats. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro she won the bronze medal in the 100 metre breaststroke behind Lilly King and Yuliya Yefimova, and she also earned a gold medal for swimming the breaststroke leg in the preliminary heats of the 4x100 metre medley relay. At the 2017 World Aquatics Championships she won silver in the 100 metre breaststroke. She retired in 2019, studied at Georgetown Law School and joined the USA Swimming Board of Directors as Athlete Representative in 2020.