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Megan Jendrick Personal information Full name Megan Jendrick Nickname(s) MJ Nationality United States
Born January 15, 1984
Tacoma, WA, USAHeight 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Sport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) Breaststroke Club KING Aquatic Club College team N/A (Turned Pro) Medal recordWomen's swimming Competitor for the United States
Olympic Games Gold 2000 Sydney[1] 100 m breaststroke Gold 2000 Sydney 4x100 m medley Silver 2008 Beijing 4×100 m medley relay World Championships (LC) Silver 2001 Fukuoka 4x100 m medley Silver 2007 Melbourne[2] 200 m breaststroke Summer Universiade Gold 2005 Izmir 50 m breaststroke Gold 2005 Izmir 100 m breaststroke Gold 2005 Izmir 4x100 m medley Pan Pacific Championships Gold 1999 Sydney 4x100 m medley Silver 2006 Victoria 100 m breaststroke Megan Jendrick (born Megan Quann on January 15, 1984 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American swimmer, record holder and fitness columnist. She won two gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Jendrick has set 27 American records and four world records in her swimming career up to date. She is a ten-time National champion, ten-time US Open champion, seven-time Masters World Record holder and fifteen-time US Masters National record holder.
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Career
In 2000, after being the youngest medalist on the US Olympic swim team with gold in the 100-meter breaststroke and 400 medley relay, Megan was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine, becoming one of few women to hold that honor.
Jendrick was the star of the 2005 World University Games in İzmir, Turkey, winning three gold medals and setting two Universiade records. At those Games, she was the only American woman to capture individual gold in two events.
Jendrick was only the second woman to ever swim the 100-yard breaststroke under 1:00 and was also the second woman in history to swim 100-yards breaststroke in under 59 seconds.
In 2006, Jendrick was the subject of a question on the December 6 episode of the game show Jeopardy!. The question for $1,600 was under the subject "12 Letter Words," and read "In the 2000 Summer Olympics, the USA's Megan Quann swam the 100m in this event in 1:07.05 to win gold."
In 2007, Jendrick won the silver medal in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 12th FINA World Championships.
On July 1, 2008, Jendrick qualified for the 2008 U.S. Olympic team in the 100 meter breaststroke, eight years after winning gold in the event at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. With the disqualification of Jessica Hardy, who was dropped from the team after testing positive for a banned substance (Clenbuterol), Jendrick is officially the winner of the event. Jendrick thus made her second Summer Olympic team after she missed qualifying in that event by a 11 one-hundredths of a second in 2004. In Beijing, Jendrick silenced many critics by making the final of the 100-meter breaststroke—ultimately finishing in fifth place—and capturing a silver medal as part of the 4x100 meter medley relay.
In Beijing, Jendrick became only the third person to win Olympic swimming medals under two different names and just the second American. The first was Eleanor Garatti (later Saville) in 1928 and 1932, the second was Libby Lenton (later Trickett) in 2004 and 2008. Jendrick did so in 2000 as Megan Quann, and in 2008 as Megan Jendrick.
On July 25, 2009, Jendrick set the 27th American Record of her career, this time in unusual fashion. Taking out a 200-meter breaststroke final, she raced her first 50 in 30.40 seconds, beating the 30.63 record that had been held by Jessica Hardy since 2007.
Personal
Jendrick graduated from Emerald Ridge High School in Puyallup, Washington. In December 2004, Jendrick married author Nathan Jendrick.
Jendrick is still often listed as Quann or Quann-Jendrick but she has said that her legal and professional name is Megan Jendrick and that the hyphenated version is not correct.
Jendrick is the 2006 recipient of the Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete Award, and was nominated that same year for a Golden Goggle Award, the highest honor outside of swimming an American aquatic athlete may receive. To date, she is a two-time nominee. From the Iba, Jendrick donated $10,000 to Children's Hospital in Seattle.
In late 2008, Jendrick began writing a weekly fitness question and answer column on the Advanced Research Press publication website, www.FitnessRxMag.com
On October 19, 2011, Megan gave birth to her first child, a son named Daethan.
See also
External links
- Official Megan-Jendrick.com website
- USA Swimming athlete bio: Megan Jendrick
- Interview for Wow.com
- CelebrityBabyScoop.com: Megan Jendrick Welcomes First Child, Daethan
References
- ^ "ESPN Sydney Swimming". http://static.espn.go.com/oly/summer00/swimming/index.html. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- ^ "12th FINA World Championships". Archived from the original on 2007-06-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20070606111744/http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Melbourne_2007/results/swimming.php. Retrieved 2007-06-09.
2000 USA Olympic swimming team Men's team Pat Calhoun • Chad Carvin • Ian Crocker • Josh Davis • Tom Dolan • Nate Dusing • Anthony Ervin • Scott Goldblatt • Gary Hall, Jr. • Tommy Hannan • Klete Keller • Lenny Krayzelburg • Jason Lezak • Tom Malchow • Ed Moses • Aaron Peirsol • Michael Phelps • Jamie Rauch • Kyle Salyards • Chris Thompson • Scott Tucker • Erik Vendt • Neil Walker • Tom Wilkens
Women's team Amanda Adkins • Samantha Arsenault • Amanda Beard • B. J. Bedford • Lindsay Benko • Brooke Bennett • Kim Black • Maddy Crippen • Misty Hyman • Kristy Kowal • Diana Munz • Rada Owen • Erin Phenix • Megan Quann • Gabrielle Rose • Kaitlin Sandeno • Courtney Shealy • Staciana Stitts • Julia Stowers • Ashley Tappin • Cristina Teuscher • Jenny Thompson • Dara Torres • Amy Van Dyken
Coaches Peter Banks • Jack Bauerle • David Marsh • Richard Quick (women's head coach) • Eddie Reese • Dave Salo • Mark Schubert (men's head coach) • Jon Urbanchek
Olympic Champions in Women's 100 m Breaststroke 1968: Đurđica Bjedov • 1972: Catherine Carr • 1976: Hannelore Anke • 1980: Ute Geweniger • 1984: Petra van Staveren • 1988: Tania Dangalakova • 1992: Yelena Rudkovskaya • 1996: Penny Heyns • 2000: Megan Quann • 2004: Luo Xuejuan • 2008: Leisel Jones
Olympic Champions in Women's 4×100 m Medley Relay 1960: USA (Burke, Kempner, Schuler, von Saltza) • 1964: USA (Ferguson, Goyette, Stouder, Ellis) • 1968: USA (Hall, Ball, Daniel, Pedersen) • 1972: USA (Belote, Carr, Deardurff, Neilson) • 1976: East Germany (Richter, Anke, Ender, Pollack) • 1980: East Germany (Reinisch, Geweniger, Pollack, Metschuck) • 1984: USA (Andrews, Caulkins, Meagher, Hogshead) • 1988: East Germany (Otto, Hörner, Weigang, Meißner) • 1992: USA (Loveless, Nall, Ahmann-Leighton, Thompson) • 1996: USA (Botsford, Beard, Martino, Van Dyken) • 2000: USA (Bedford, Quann, Thompson, Torres) • 2004: Australia (Rooney, Jones, Thomas, Henry) • 2008: Australia (Seebohm, Jones, Schipper, Trickett)
Pan Pacific Champions in Women's 4×100 m Medley Relay 1985: CAN • 1987: USA (Linehan, Johnson, Myers, Torres) • 1989: USA (Loveless, McFarlane, Johnson, Fetter) • 1991: USA (Wagstaff, King, Ahmann-Leighton, Haislett) • 1993: USA (Loveless, Nall, Thompson, Martino) • 1995: AUS (Stevenson, Riley, O'Neill, Ryan) • 1997: USA (Maurer, Kowal, Fox, Thompson) • 1999: USA (Bedford, Quann, Thompson, Kolbisen) • 2002: AUS (Calub, Jones, Thomas, Henry) • 2006: USA (Coughlin, Hardy, Komisarz, Weir) • 2010: USA (Coughlin, Soni, Vollmer, Hardy)
Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 50 m Breaststroke 2001: Tara Kirk (USA) · 2003: Luo Xuejuan (CHN) · 2005: Megan Jendrick (USA) · 2007: Janne Schäfer (GER) · 2009: Daria Deeva (RUS) · 2011: Ann Chandler (USA)
Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 100 m Breaststroke 1967: Diana Harris (GBR) · 1970: Galina Stepanova (URS) · 1973: Lyubov Rusanova (URS) · 1977: Marion Stuart (CAN) · 1979: Irena Fleissnerová (TCH) · 1981: Angelika Knipping (FRG) · 1983: Larisa Belokon (URS) · 1985: Tanya Bogomilova (BUL) · 1987: Manuela Dalla Valle (ITA) · 1991–1993: Guylaine Cloutier (CAN) · 1995: Penelope Heyns (RSA) · 1997: Svitlana Bondarenko (UKR) · 1999: Amy Balcerzak (USA) · 2001: Xu Shan (CHN) · 2003: Luo Xuejuan (CHN) · 2005: Megan Jendrick (USA) · 2007: Nanaka Tamura (JPN) · 2009: Chiara Boggiatto (ITA) 2011: Sun Ye (CHN)
Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 4×100 m Medley Relay 1959: Italy: Unknown · 1961: Soviet Union: Unknown · 1963: Hungary: Unknown · 1965: Hungary: Unknown · 1967: USA: (Moore, Goyette, Randall, Gustavson) · 1970: USA: (Hall, Kurtz, Colella, McCuen) · 1973: USA: (Tullis, Arr, Arden, Tuttle) · 1977: USA: (McCully, Tasnady, Harrell, Hinderaker) · 1979: USA: (Breedy, Hegel, Rapp, Caulkins) · 1981: USA: (Carlisle, Waters, Sterkel, Major) · 1983: Soviet Union: Unknown · 1985: USA: (Donahue, Smith, Meagher, Johnson) · 1987: USA: (O'Brien, Rhodenbaugh, Eyles, Berzins) · 1991: USA: (Bedford, Hedman, Morgan, Stoudt) · 1993: USA: (Humphrey, Heisick, Depold, Perroni) · 1995: USA: (Heydanek, King Bednar, Campbell, Edwards) · 1997: Japan: Unknown · 1999: Japan: (Inada, Nakashima, Hagiwara, Imoto) 2001: PR China: Unknown · 2003: PR China: (Zhan, Luo, Xu, Pang) · 2005: USA: (McGregory, Jendrick, Christianson, Correia) · 2007: Japan: (Terakawa, Tamura, Kato, Urabe) · 2009: USA: (Rogers, Freeman, Sims, Kennedy) 2011: PR China: (Gao, Sun, Lu, Tang) ·
Categories:- 1984 births
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- Olympic swimmers of the United States
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- People from Tacoma, Washington
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- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Female breaststroke swimmers
- People from Puyallup, Washington
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
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