- Cristina Teuscher
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Cristina Teuscher Personal information Full name Cristina Teuscher Nationality 
United StatesBorn March 12, 1978
Bronx, New YorkHeight 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Sport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) Freestyle and Medley College team Columbia University Medal recordWomen’s swimming Competitor for the United StatesOlympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta 4x200 m freestyle Bronze 2000 Sydney 200 m medley World Championships (LC) Silver 1994 Rome 400 m freestyle Bronze 1994 Rome 4×200 m freestyle Pan American Games Gold 1995 Mar del Plata 200 m freestyle Gold 1995 Mar del Plata 4x100 m freestyle Gold 1995 Mar del Plata 4x200 m freestyle Silver 1995 Mar del Plata 400 m freestyle Pan Pacific Championships Gold 1995 Atlanta 4x200 m freestyle Gold 1999 Sydney 4x200 m freestyle Cristina Teuscher (born March 12, 1978 in Bronx, New York) is a former freestyle and medley swimmer from the United States, who was a member of the Women's Relay Team that won the gold medal in the 4x200m Freestyle a the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Her winning teammates were Jenny Thompson, Trina Jackson, and Sheila Taormina. Four years later, while Captain of the U.S. Women's Team, she captured the bronze medal in the 200m Individual Medley, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Teuscher is 2000 graduate of Columbia University, where she was an All-American and four-time NCAA champion. She won 12 Ivy League titles, set 17 Lion records, and was named the Honda Award recipient as the 1999-2000 Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.[1]
She later completed her MBA at INSEAD in 2007. She is the current women's head coach at Yale. Teuscher is on the board of directors for the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards. [2]
References
- ^ Teuscher's page on the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards website; retrieve 2009-06-17.
- ^ Yale Women's Swimming and Diving Website
1996 USA Olympic Swimming Team Men's Team Ryan Berube • Brad Bridgewater • Carlton Bruner • Greg Burgess • Ray Carey • Josh Davis • Tom Dolan • David Fox • Kurt Grote • Gary Hall, Jr. • John Hargis • Mark Henderson • Joe Hudepohl • Jeremy Linn • Tom Malchow • Eric Namesnik • Jon Olsen • John Piersma • Jeff Rouse • Brad Schumacher • Tripp Schwenk • Scott Tucker • Peter Wright • Eric Wunderlich
Women's Team Amanda Beard • Brooke Bennett • Beth Botsford • Janet Evans • Catherine Fox • Whitney Hedgepeth • Trina Jackson • Lisa Jacob • Angel Martino • Whitney Metzler • Kristine Quance • Annette Salmeen • Jilen Siroky • Sheila Taormina • Cristina Teuscher • Jenny Thompson • Melanie Valerio • Amy Van Dyken • Allison Wagner • Ashley Whitney
Coaches Skip Kenney • David Marsh • Richard Quick • Eddie Reese • Mark Schubert • Jonty Skinner • Murray Stephens • Gregg Troy • Jon Urbanchek
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 4×200 m Freestyle Relay Pan American Champions in Women's 200 m Freestyle 1951: Ana María Schultz | 1955: Wanda Werner | 1959: Chris von Saltza | 1963: Robyn Johnson | 1967: Pam Kruse | 1971 – 1975: Kim Peyton | 1979 – 1983: Cynthia Woodhead | 1987: Silvia Poll Ahrens | 1991: Lisa Jacob | 1995: Cristina Teuscher | 1999: Jessica Deglau | 2003: Dana Vollmer | 2007: Ava Ohlgren | 2011: Catherine BreedPan American Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay 1951: United States (Green, Geary, LaVine, Mullen) · 1955: United States (Werner, Green, Kluter, Roberts) · 1959: United States (Botkin, Spillane, Stobs, Von Saltza) · 1963: United States (De Varona, Stouder, McCleary, Norton) · 1967: United States (Fordyce, Carpinelli, Gustavson, Kruse) · 1971: United States (Neilson, Fordyce, McKitrick, Skrifvars) · 1975: United States (Heddy, Brown, Sterkel, Peyton) · 1979: United States (Elkins, Caulkins, Sterkel, Woodhead) · 1983: United States (Sterkel, Torres, Wayte, Steinseifer) · 1987: United States (Coffin, Thompson, Linke, Steinseifer) · 1991: United States (Oesting, Buckovich, Jacob, Tappin) · 1995: United States (Martino, Van Dyken, Farella, Teuscher) · 1999: Canada (Deglau, Limpert, Evanetz, Nicholls) · 2003: United States (Weir, Swindle, Lanne, Shealy) · 2007: United States (Smit, Woodward, Kukors, Correia) · 2011: United States (Kennedy, Pelton, Kendall, Erndl)
Pan American Champions in Women's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay 1987: United States (Habermas, Linke, Hayden, Hedgepeth) • 1991: United States (Norberg, Metz, Skillman, Jacob) • 1995: United States (Jackson, Vincent, Fox, Teuscher) • 1999: Canada (Deglau, Malar, Limpert, Nicholls) • 2003: United States (Hill, Lanne, Piper, Vollmer) • 2007: United States (Rodriguez, Kukors, Ohlgren, Carroll) • 2011: United States (Breed, Pelton, Nauta, Kendall)
Pan Pacific Champions in Women's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay 1985: USA (Wayte, Radke, Walker, Steinseifer) • 1987: USA (Kremer, Radke, Marley, O'Leary) • 1989: USA (Kremer, Cassiday, Evans, Kole) • 1991: USA (Haislett, Hedgepeth, Evans, Anderson) • 1993: USA (Haislett, Evans, Anderson, Thompson) • 1995: USA (Teuscher, Valerio, Jackson, Thompson) • 1997: USA (Benko, Whitney, Cail, Thompson) • 1999: USA (Benko, Stonebraker, Thompson, Teuscher) • 2002: USA (Coughlin, Hill, Munz, Benko) • 2006: USA (Coughlin, Nymeyer, Vollmer, Hoff) • 2010: USA (Vollmer, Scroggy, Hoff, Schmitt)
Categories:- 1978 births
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- American swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States
- People from the Bronx
- Columbia University alumni
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Female freestyle swimmers
- Female medley swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- American swimming Olympic medalist stubs
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