Missy Franklin

Missy Franklin is an American former competitive swimmer and five-time Olympic gold medalist who held the world record in the 200 metre backstroke from 2012 to 2019. Born in Pasadena, California in 1995, she grew up in Aurora, Colorado. At her Olympic debut at the 2012 Games in London, at the age of seventeen, she won five medals, four of them gold, sweeping the 100 and 200 metre backstroke events. In international competition she won twenty-eight medals, seventeen gold, six silver and five bronze, and her eleven golds at the World Aquatics Championships were a women's record until Katie Ledecky passed them in 2017. She won the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year award in 2014 and announced her retirement in December 2018.