Janel Jorgensen
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| Full name | Janel Simone Jorgensen | |||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States |
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| Born | May 18, 1971 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 146 lb (66 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Janel Simone Jorgensen (born May 18, 1971), later known by her married name Janel McArdle, is an American former competition swimmer and butterfly specialist. As a 17-year-old at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, she won a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, together with her teammates Beth Barr (backstroke), Tracey McFarlane (breaststroke), and Mary Wayte (freestyle).[1]
Jorgensen received an athletic scholarship to attend Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Pacific-10 Conference competition. In 1992–93, she was the recipient of the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year.[2]
Jorgensen is the current president of Swim Across America, a national non-profit organization that has raised over $30 million for cancer research, prevention and treatment through swimming events all over the United States.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Janel Jorgensen. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
- ↑ Collegiate Women Sports Awards, Past Honda Sports Award Winners for Swimming & Diving. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
- ↑ Terry Cookston, "Swim Across America Makes Waves in Rockwall," Rockwall Herald-Banner (June 22, 2011). Retrieved November 13, 2012.
External links
- Janel Jorgensen – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
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- Pages using infobox swimmer with national team parameter
- 1971 births
- Living people
- American female butterfly swimmers
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Stanford Cardinal women's swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Place of birth missing (living people)
