Tracy Caulkins

Tracy Caulkins, born on 11 January 1963 in Winona, Minnesota, and later known as Tracy Stockwell, is an American former competition swimmer who won three Olympic gold medals and five world championship titles. She was praised for her versatility in all four strokes and in the individual medley, won forty-eight national championships and set five world records and sixty-three American records before retiring in 1984. At the 1978 World Championships in West Berlin she won five gold medals at the age of fifteen, and the United States boycott of the 1980 Games kept her from an expected Olympic campaign. She swam for the University of Florida, winning sixteen NCAA championships, and at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics she captained the American women and won gold in the 400 metre individual medley, the 200 metre individual medley and the medley relay. She is regarded as one of the greatest swimmers of all time and lives in Queensland, Australia.