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Allison Rodgers Schmitt (born June 7, 1990) is an American competition swimmer who specializes in freestyle events. She is a four-time Olympian and a ten-time Olympic medalist.
In her Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Schmitt won a bronze medal as a member of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Four years later, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she won a total of five medals, three of them gold, in the 200-meter freestyle (in which she set a new Olympic record),[4] in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, and in the 4×100-meter medley relay (in which a new world record was set);[5] and she also won a silver medal in the 400 meter freestyle, and a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics Schmitt won a gold medal in the 4×200 meter freestyle relay and a silver medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay. It was the first Olympics where she served as captain of the US Olympic swim team. Schmitt was the only second-time captain for the US Olympic swim team at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[6] At the 2020 Olympics, Schmitt won a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, swimming in the prelims of the race, and a silver medal swimming in the final of the 4x200-meter freestyle relay.[7][8]
In total, Schmitt has won twenty-five medals in major international competitions: thirteen gold, nine silver, and three bronze spanning the Summer Olympics, the FINA World Championships, the Pan Pacific Championships, and the Pan American Games. She was a four-time National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national champion in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle swimming events during college, and was a member of the Georgia Bulldogs team that won the NCAA Division I Women's team title in 2013.
Schmitt was named SwimSwam's Swammy Award-winner for Female Swimmer of the Year in 2012.[9]
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- ^ "Allison Schmitt - Bio". SwimSwam. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- ^ a b "Allison Schmitt". London 2012 official site. Archived from the original on April 26, 2013.
- ^ Jean Marbella. "Schmitt moves into spotlight". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
- ^ "Allison Schmitt, U.S. women set world record in 400 medley relay win at Olympics". The Detroit Free Press. August 4, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
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