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But in she began training to make another Olympic team and made the US team for Beijing, winning the Olympic Trials in both the 50 and metre freestyle. She added silver medals in both relays. Torres finished her Olympic career lacking only an individual gold medal. Torres won four Olympic medals of each color, one of only three Olympians to have won four or more medals of each type Takashi Ono of Japan, and Larisa Latynina in gymnastics are the others. Olympic Medals. Free live sport events.

Unlimited access to series. Sign up here Sign up here. Latest news. Olympic Results More results. Torres retired again after the Sydney games, but at age 41 and after having her first child, she returned to competitive swimming and qualified to compete in her fifth Olympics in Beijing.

This accomplishment makes Torres not only the first American swimmer to compete in five Olympics, but also the oldest female swimmer in the history of the Olympic Games. Dara Torres, a five-time Olympic athlete, waves to the crowd after taking silver in the women's 50m freestyle event in Beijing, August 17, Image courtesy of Bryan Allison. Jewish Women's Archive. Episode Jane: Abortion Before Roe. Swimmer Dara Torres qualifies for fourth Olympics August 10, You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form.

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Donate Help us elevate the voices of Jewish women. Torres resumed her media career before giving birth to a daughter in and then going back into training again. Finding that she was still capable of producing world-class times, she entered the US trials for Beijing and promptly swam a new national record of Despite being 41 years and four months old, Torres then went on to win two more silvers in the 4xm freestyle and 4xm medley relay events, a double that took her overall Olympic medal tally to 12 at five games, four of those medals being golds.

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