Sheila Taormina

Sheila Taormina is an American former athlete, born on 18 March 1969, who competed at four Olympics between 1996 and 2008 and was the first woman to qualify for the Olympics in three different sports: swimming, triathlon and modern pentathlon. At the 1996 Summer Olympics she won gold in the women's 4 by 200 metre freestyle relay as part of the winning American team. She raced the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Games in Sydney, finishing sixth, and in 2004 won the ITU Triathlon World Championship title before finishing 23rd in the Athens triathlon. She was inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.