Elaine Breeden
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| Full name | Elaine Breeden Penrose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | November 18, 1988 Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 161 lb (73 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Stanford Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Stanford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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][2]
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.
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References[]
- ^ "Start ListWomen's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1". Archived from the original on August 18, 2008. Retrieved August 17, 2008.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elaine Breeden". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016.
External links[]
- Elaine Breeden at USA Swimming
- Elaine Breeden at FINA
- Elaine Breeden at TeamUSA.org
- Elaine Breeden at Olympics.com
- Elaine Breeden at Olympedia
- Elaine Breeden – Stanford University athlete profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-10-27)
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