Nicole Haislett

Nicole Haislett is an American former competitive swimmer from St. Petersburg, Florida, who won three gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She won the 200 metre freestyle individually and swam on the winning United States 4x100 metre freestyle relay, which set a world record of 3:39.46, and she earned a third gold in the medley relay for her swim in the preliminaries. Earlier she had won the 100 metre freestyle at the 1991 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, ending East German dominance of that event. At the University of Florida she swam for the Gators from 1991 to 1994, winning NCAA titles including four straight in the 200 yard freestyle, and she received the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving for 1993 to 1994. She retired in 1995, worked as an assistant coach and later trained as a chef, and she entered the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004.