Annette Salmeen
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| Full name | Annette Elizabeth Salmeen | ||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 7, 1974 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of California, Los Angeles | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Annette Elizabeth Salmeen (born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on December 7, 1974)[1] is an American biochemist, a 1997 Rhodes Scholar[2] and became a gold medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[3]
She was a competitive swimmer by the age of 9, and became a standout swimmer at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, where she was co-captain of the girls' swimming team for two years.[4] While at Huron, Salmeen was three-time state champion in the 500-yard freestyle, and once in the 100-yard butterfly.[4] Salmeen went on to swim at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she was a co-captain, four-time All-American, and an NCAA national champion in the 200-yard butterfly.[5] She won a bronze medal in the 200-meter butterfly[6] at the 1995 World University Games in Fukuoka, Japan.[3] Salmeen qualified for the U.S. Olympic Team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where she earned a gold medal for swimming for the U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay.[3] In individual competition at the Olympics, she finished 4th in the B Final (12th overall) in the women's 200-meter butterfly.[7] Salmeen was later inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.[7]
Rhodes Scholarship
Salmeen graduated from UCLA in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue a Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil.) in biochemistry at Oxford University.[8] During her four years at St John's College, Oxford,[9] she was a member of the Oxford University Swimming Club, where she set three long-course records and six on the short-course.[5]
