Elaine Breeden
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Full name | Elaine Breeden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Lexington, Kentucky | November 18, 1988|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 161 lb (73 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Stanford Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Elaine Breeden Penrose (born November 18, 1988), née Elaine Breeden, is an American competition swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.
Breeden qualified to compete in the 100-meter and 200-meter butterfly events at the 2008 Summer Olympics by placing second and first, respectively, in those events at the U.S. Olympic Trials. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, she advanced to the semifinals of the women's 100-meter butterfly, and finished seventh in the final of the women's 200-meter butterfly. She earned a silver medal by swimming for the second-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter medley relay.[1]
Breeden attended Stanford University, and swam for the Stanford Cardinal women's swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 2007 to 2010. As a college swimmer, she was a three-time NCAA national champion in the 200-yard butterfly (2007, 2009, 2010), as well as the NCAA champion in the 100-yard butterfly (2010). She received a total of 24 All-American honors.
See also
References
- ^ "Start ListWomen's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1". Archived from the original on 2008-08-18. Retrieved 2008-08-17.
External links
- {{USA Swimming}} template missing ID.
- Elaine Breeden at Team USA (archived)
- Elaine Breeden at Olympics.com
- Elaine Breeden at Olympics.com
- Elaine Breeden at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Elaine Breeden – Stanford University athlete profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-10-27)
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Lexington, Kentucky
- American female butterfly swimmers
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Stanford Cardinal women's swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in swimming
- Universiade medalists in swimming
- Sportswomen from Kentucky
- Universiade silver medalists for the United States
- Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
- American swimming Olympic medalist stubs