About Dara Torres
Dara has won nine Olympic medals, including four golds, and won five medals alone at Sydney in 2000.
On August 1st, 2007 at the age of 40 (and 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 breaking her own American record in the 50m freestyle.
Dara is the first swimmer to make five Olympic teams and the oldest female Olympic swimmer, at age 41. Torres knows she's a bit of a curiosity on the sports talk-show circuit. Some people have a hard time believing that a 42-year-old mother is faster, stronger and better than swimmers half her age. But seeing is believing. Go, Dara!
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Basic Stats
Height: 5'11 1/2
Weight: 145
Born: 4/15/1967 Beverly Hills, CA
Other: Dana and her husband, David Hoffman, have a daughter named Tessa Grace, born April 2006.
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Biography
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Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967) is an American swimmer. She is the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008. She competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in the 50 meter freestyle, 4×100 medley relay, and 4×100 freestyle relay and wonUS swimmer Torres washes away generation gap the silver medal in all three of these events.
Torres has won twelve Olympic medals (four gold, four silver, four bronze), five of which she won in the Sydney Olympics in 2000, a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that, at age 33, she was the oldest member of the US Olympic Swim Team. She has also won at least one medal in each of the five Olympics in which she has competed, making her one of only a handful of Olympians to earn medals in five different Games.Dara Torres and her Olympic bests
On August 1, 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 4 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.
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From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.
Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one-years after she had retired from competitive swimming and eight years since her last Olympics. When she took three silver medals in Beijing-including a heartbreaking .01-second finish behind the gold medalist in the women's 50-meter freestyle-America loved her all the more for her astonishing achievement and her good-natured acceptance of the results.
Now, in Age Is Just a Number, Dara reveals how the dream of an Olympic comeback first came to her-when she was months into her first, hard-won pregnancy. With humor and candor, Dara recounts how she returned to serious training-while nursing her infant daughter and contending with her beloved father's long battle with cancer.
Dara talks frankly about diving back in for this comeback; about being an older athlete in a younger athletes' game; about competition, doubt, and belief; about working through pain and uncertainty; and finally-about seizing the moment and, most important, never giving up. A truly self-made legend, her story will resonate with women of all ages-and with anyone daring to entertain a seemingly impossible dream.
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Olympic Stats
Age 17: 1984 Los Angeles, one gold medal
Age 21: 1988 Seoul, one bronze, one silver
Age 25: 1992 Barcelona, one gold
Age 33: 2000 Sydney, two gold, three bronze
Age 41: 2008 Beijing, three silver
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- Meet Dara Torres
- Women's Health Magazine. The diehard Olympic swimmer is proof that when it comes to any goal, it's all about how bad you want it.
- Official Olympic Stats
- View Dara's times and wins at the Largest Olympics Statistics and History Database Online.
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- The Sexy Women of Sports. Several photos of Dara including one with Donny Osmond. ????
- Ten Questions With Dara Torres
- SportsHollywood caught up with Dara at the celebrity practice at Willow Springs raceway in California, and asked a few questions.
- Twenty Questions With Dara Torres
- Twenty Question Tuesday with special correspondent Bob Schaller at USAswimming.org.
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- About Dara Torres. Dara Torres will be the first swimmer from the United States to compete for olympic metals in five Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008. Blogroll. Search. « Duel in the Pool: Flash! Five World Records On Day One ...
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- high-profile professional athletes in the United States and Canada, including Tiger Woods, the sprinter Donovan Bailey and the swimmer Dara Torres. ? Prediction: Obama to Undergo His Own Tiger Woods-Type UnmaskingRushLimbaugh.com ...
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- USS Bubba USS Bubba Aug 19, 2008 @ 6:00 pm
- interesting quote
Everyone who is competing on a professional level uses drugs. From steroids to other anabolical stuffs. It depends how much money they have. It is a fact there is no way braking world records in every single year without using something. She is 41 then it is even more likely that she uses something. A lot of athletes use EPO and other anabolical hormones that our body generates anyway in smaller amount. It is very difficult to detect those elements for the same reason. I just read an interview with a Mexican guy who used to be the biggest expert in the supject. He was the dealer of the American athletes. He was even supplying Jamaican and other athletes mainly from Mexico and the caribbeans. Now that most of t he American runners are busted is it a surprise that most of the running competitions are won by Jamaican athletes. Even though you are one of the greatests but you get injured sponsors like Nike and Adidas more likely deduct 20-50% from your salary.
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- USS Bubba USS Bubba Aug 19, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
- better living thru steroids..........nothing new.......but having medical doctors as husbands kinda helps with the supply chain and cleaning up before testing......
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- Twmarsh Twmarsh Aug 3, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
- Nice Lens. It will be fun to watch Dara in the upcoming Olympic Games. 5 Stars!
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- Samara Samara May 29, 2008 @ 9:19 pm
- Oh My GOD!!! Dara is amazing!! I have just found my new idol for the body that I want!!! She is an inspiration to everyone of any age!!! Absolutely amazing!!!
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