Maya DiRado

Maya DiRado, full name Madeline Jane DiRado-Andrews, is a retired American competitive swimmer born on April 5, 1993, who specialised in freestyle, butterfly, backstroke and individual medley events. She began swimming at six with the Santa Rosa Neptunes, graduated from Maria Carrillo High School and swam for Stanford University, where she won NCAA titles in the 200 and 400 yard individual medley in 2014, was named Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year and graduated in management science and engineering. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro she won gold in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay and the 200 metre backstroke, silver in the 400 metre individual medley and bronze in the 200 metre individual medley. She retired from the sport after those Games.