Dara Torres

About Dara Torres

Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967, in Los Angeles, California) is an American swimmer. She will be the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008. She will compete in the Beijing Olympic Games in the 50 meter freestyle, 4 x 100 medley relay, 4 x 100 freestyle relay, and has the option to swim the 100 meter freestyle.

She has won nine Olympic medals, including four golds, and won five medals alone in Sydney in 2000, the Games in which she was the eldest member on the team with her 33 years. On August 1st, 2007 at the age of 40 (just 15 months after giving birth to her first child), she won gold in the 100 meter freestyle at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, her 14th win at these events. She then followed that up on August 4th by twice breaking her own American record in the 50 m freestyle, 26 years after she first set the American record at just 15 years old.

Torres attended the Westlake School for Girls (now Harvard-Westlake School), located in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, and swam under coach Darlene Bible, where she set CIF records that remain to this day.