MALIA JONES

Malia Jones Profile

Birth Name: Malia Jones
Place of Birth: Kailua, Hawaii
Date of Birth: March 27, 1977
Height: 5’5
Occupations: Model, Surfer
Hobbies: Fashion designer

Malia Jones Biography
Malia Jones is a model and surfer from Hawaii. She is credited with furthering interest of young girls in the sport of surfing. Malia is of Hawaiian, Spanish and Filipino descent.
Malia was born in Loma Linda, California, but at age 2 moved to Kailua, Hawaii. According to her, she’s been surfing since she was a baby, which most likely consisted of her parents putting her infantile body on a surf board and laughing as her fear induced tears streamed down her face with each wave. At age 15 she won the United States Amateur Surfing Championship in the girls division. While competing, Surfing Magazine spotted her and asker her to model for their magazine. From there her modeling career skyrocketed.

People magazine named Malia one of the “50 Most Beautiful People,” an honor that sometimes goes to people who aren’t that attractive but do interesting things, but in this case it was due to her attractiveness.

Malia currently divides her time designing swimwear, acting in television commercials, and surfing.

In 2007, she married Australian professional surfer Luke Stedman. In 2009, she gave birth to the couples first child, Spike.The couple is currently separated.

Jones divided her time between Hawaii, France and Sydney, Australia, before recently moving back to her hometown of North Shore.

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LAURE MANAUDOU

Laure Manaudou born 9 October 1986 in Villeurbanne, Rhône was a French Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She is the daughter of a French father and a Dutch mother.

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AMANDA BEARD PROFILE

Amanda Beard born on October 29, 1981 in Irvine, California, USA. She is a swimmer and model.

Biography and Career :

At the age of fourteen she was already present at the Olympic Games. It was happening in 1996 at Atlanta when she won two silver medals at 100 and 200 m breaststroke and a gold medal at 4x100 m medley relay. She entered in the media's and public's attention because she was very young.

She won the NCAA National Championship while attending the University of Arizona. After only two years she was the world champion and world record holder in the 200m breaststroke. She was present at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000 and in Athens in 2004 and every time did a great job and managed to win another medals. She is the winner of eight United States titles and in 2003 was placed on the first rank in world ranking of 200m breaststroke.

As a model she appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, FHM in 2006 and one year later in a nude pictorial in the famous Playboy magazine. She is sexy, smart and talented and men all over the world would give anything to have her. Let's hope that we will see her in the swimming races a long time.

Trivia :

- Height: 175 cm
- She is considered a beautiful woman and was placed among the FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" and FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006".

Quotes :

- "When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous."

- "I keep [my Olympic medals] in my underwear drawer. For safekeeping... no one goes in there."

Olympic Medals :

- 1996 Atlanta - 4x100 m medley relay GOLD
- 1996 Atlanta - 100 m breaststroke SILVER
- 1996 Atlanta - 200 m breaststroke SILVER
- 2000 Sydney - 200 m breaststroke BRONZE
- 2004 Athens - 200 m breaststroke GOLD
- 2004 Athens - 200 m individual medley SILVER
- 2004 Athens - 4x100 m medley relay SILVER


Self Filmography :

- The O'Reilly Factor (1Â episode, 2007)
- Rome Is Burning (1Â episode, 2007)
- Late Show with David Letterman (1Â episode, 2007)
- I Love the '90s: Part Deux (2005) (mini) TVÂ Series
- Quintuplets (1Â episode, 2004)
- Mad TV (1Â episode, 2004)
- Last Call with Carson Daly (1Â episode, 2004)
- Athens 2004: Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (2004) (mini) TVÂ Series
- Sydney 2000: Games of the XXVII Olympiad (2000) (mini) TVÂ Series
- Atlanta 1996: Games of the XXVI Olympiad (1996) (mini) TVÂ Series
- SportsFigures (1Â episode).

MICHAEL PHELPS

Michael Fred Phelps born June 30, 1985 is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions. In doing so he has twice equaled the record eight medals of any type at a single Olympics achieved by Soviet gymnast Alexander Dityatin at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games. His five golds in individual events tied the single Games record set by Eric Heiden in the 1980 Winter Olympics and equaled by Vitaly Scherbo at the 1992 Summer Games. Phelps holds the record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics, his eight at the 2008 Beijing Games surpassed American swimmer Mark Spitz's seven-gold performance at Munich in 1972. Phelps Olympic medal total is second only to the 18 Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina won over three Olympics, including nine gold.

Phelps's international titles and record breaking performances have earned him the World Swimmer of the Year Award six times and American Swimmer of the Year Award eight times. He has won a total of fifty-nine medals in major international competition, fifty gold, seven silver, and two bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships. His unprecedented Olympic success in 2008 earned Phelps Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year award.

After the 2008 Summer Olympics, Phelps started the Michael Phelps Foundation, which focuses on growing the sport of swimming and promoting healthier lifestyles. As a participant in the US Anti-Doping Agency's "Project Believe" program, Phelps is regularly tested to ensure that his system is clean of performance-enhancing drugs.



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STEPHANIE RICE

Stephanie Louise Rice born 17 June 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland is an Australian swimmer. She currently holds the world record in the 400 m women's individual medley, and won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Rice is trained by Michael Bohl from the St Peters Western Swimming Club in Brisbane. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2009.

Personal information
Full name: Stephanie Louise Rice
Nickname(s): Ricey, Steph
Country: Australia
Stroke(s): Medley, Freestyle, Butterfly
Club: St Peters Western Swimming Club
Date of birth: 17 June 1988 (1988-06-17)
Place of birth: Brisbane, Queensland
Height: 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Weight: 67 kg (150 lb; 10.6 st)

Career
Rice was the gold medallist in the 200 metres individual medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia where she defeated Olympians Brooke Hanson and Lara Carroll to claim the gold medal in the event in a time of 2:12.90, a personal best by 1.19 sec. She also won the 400m individual medley.

At the 2007 Melbourne World Championships she won a bronze medal in the 200m individual medley in a time of 2 minutes 11.42 seconds, breaking the previous Australian record by a second. American Katie Hoff won the gold in 2:10.13, with Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe in second place. Rice once again placed third, earning her second bronze medal in the 400m individual medley final. In a new personal best time Rice finished in 4:41.19, taking 0.54 sec off her previous best.

Rice continued her strong performance, setting a new personal best time in the 400m individual medley at an Italian meet in June 2007. Rice went a 4:40.79, edging closer to the elusive 4:40 barrier in the event. At the 2007 Japanese Open Championships, Rice smashed her personal best time in the 400m individual medley and finally cracked the 4:40 barrier. In placing second to Zimbabwean champion Kirsty Coventry, Rice set a new Australian and Commonwealth record of 4:37.18, a personal best by 3.61 sec.

At the 2008 Australian Olympic trials, Rice broke the world record in the 400 m individual medley. Rice stopped the clock at 4 minutes 31.46 seconds, 1.43 seconds off American Katie Hoff's mark of 4:32.89. On 29 June 2008, at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Hoff regained the world record from Rice with a time of 4:31.12. Rice claimed her second world record of the meet, when she broke the 200 m individual medley world record, clocking 2 minutes 8.92 seconds to slash almost a full second off the previous record held by China's Wu Yanyan.

At the Beijing Olympic Games, Rice received her first-ever Olympic medal, Australia's first gold medal of the games and its 400th summer Olympic medal, winning the 400m individual medley in a time of 4 minutes 29.45 seconds. In the process she reclaimed the world record from Hoff bettering the mark by 1.67 seconds, thus becoming the first woman to break the 4:30 in the event, (Kirsty Coventry also went under 4:30 in taking the silver).

Personal life
Rice attended Clayfield College in her high school years in Brisbane, Queensland. She was romantically linked with fellow Australian swimmer and 50m freestyle world-record-holder Eamon Sullivan. They ended their 2 year relationship in July 2008, just prior to the Beijing Olympics. The couple lived in separate states of Australia (Sullivan in WA and Rice in Queensland) and said the stress of living so far apart and the impending Olympics caused the split, but have conceded that the two are still good friends.

In September 2010, Rice came under fire when she used Twitter in response to the Wallabies defeat of the Springboks, using the word "faggots". Rice later removed the remark and apologised for it, however sponsor Jaguar severed ties and requested the return of a loan vehicle.

In October 2010, Rice attended the Australian Rugby Union's John Eales Medal presentation with five-eighth Quade Cooper.

PARK TAE HWAN

Park Tae-hwan (born September 27, 1989) is a South Korean swimmer. He is a member of the South Korean national swimming team, based in Taereung, Seoul. He won a gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle and a silver in the 200 meter freestyle events at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He is the first Asian swimmer to win a gold medal in Men's 400 metre freestyle event, and the first Korean to win a medal in swimming.Born in Seoul in 1989, Park graduated from Kyunggi High School in February 2008, and enrolled at Dankook University, where he is majoring in physical education. His father is a saxophone player and his mother is a dancer. He currently serves as a goodwill ambassador for 'Dynamic Korea', South Korea's international image-making campaign, alongside international figure skater Kim Yu-Na.[7] Park Tae-hwan is one of Asia's top Men's Freestyle swimmers. He was voted Most Valuable Player at the 2006 Asian Games in Qatar where he won seven medals including three gold. The 19-year-old trains in Melbourne and is also a Pan Pacific Champion. He was voted Swimming World's Pacific Rim Swimmer of the Year in 2006.




Park began swimming at the age of 5 when his doctor suggested it would be good for his asthma. He began his competitive swimming career at the age of 7, earning several medals in junior competitions. This early success led to Park's selection to the Korean Swimming Federation as a national team member in 2003. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, however, Park was disqualified for a false start in the preliminary heat of the men's 400m freestyle competition. However, shortly thereafter at the 2004 Fina Swimming World Cup, Park was the runner-up in the men's 400 meter freestyle event. Park continued his competitive success in subsequent years, most notably at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, where he won three golds, one silver and three bronze medals, the most medals won by a single athlete at the Games. He also set two Asian Records. For his success, Park was named an Athlete of the Games. At the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Victoria, Canada, Park won two gold medals (in the 1500 meter freestyle and the 400 meter freestyle) and one silver medal (200 m freestyle). Park was named the 2006 Pacific Rim Male Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World Magazine, beating out Olympic medalist (and 2005 awardee) Australian Grant Hackett for the honor. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Park won a gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle event and a silver medal in the 200 meter freestyle event. In swimming 1:44.85 in the 200m freestyle final, Park joined Michael Phelps, Ian Thorpe, and Pieter van den Hoogenband as the only men to have ever swum under 1:45 in the event. Much of the press coverage surrounding Park's successes emphasize the fact that these are the first Olympic medals in swimming for South Korea.




Just after a stunning victory against idol Grant Hackett in the men's 400m freestyle at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, Park decided to train alone in Sydney, Australia as his own '500-day project', parting with his personal managing team in December 2007. He then joined the Korean national team training base in February 2008 to prepare for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Under Park's personal coach Roh Min-sang and other members of the coaching staff, the national team trained in Malaysia (February 2008) and Guam (May 2008) to prepare Park for his second attempt at the Olympics. He qualified for competition in the men's 200 meter, 400 meter and 1500 meter freestyle events.At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, Park surprised many after failing to qualify to swim in the finals of the 200 and 400 m freestyle. Some blame Park's poor performance on his decision to wear Speedo's LZR Racer in the championships.

Personal bests
* 100m 48.70 (2010) 2010 Asian Games Final; won the gold medal
* 200m 1:44.80 (2010) Asian Record 2010 Asian Games Final; won the gold medal
* 400m 3:41.53 (2010) 2010 Asian Games Final; won the gold medal
* 1500m 14:55.03 (2006) 2006 Asian Games Final; won the gold medal

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BRENDAN HANSEN

Brendan Joseph Hansen (born August 15, 1981) is a former American swimmer who specialized in the breaststroke. He is a four-time Olympic medalist.Hansen was born and grew up in Havertown, a suburb about 10 minutes away from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Haverford Senior High School. He swam for many different clubs, including Karakung Swim Club. His main stroke is breaststroke. Hansen's well-known for his unique style of breaststroke, which incorporates a kick that is much narrower than the other swimmers, including his biggest rival, Kosuke Kitajima, who has consistently defeated Hansen. At the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Hansen won the 200 m breaststroke with a time of 2:10.69 , a championship record. At the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Hansen won gold in the 4×100 m medley relay, silver in the 100 m breaststroke, and bronze in the 200 m breaststroke. In his first event, the 100 m breaststroke, Hansen finished second to Kosuke Kitajima with a time of 1:00.21. In his second event, the 200 m breaststroke, Hansen finished in third place with a time 2:11.11. In the 4×100 m medley relay, Hansen swam his leg with a time of 59.61 and the American squad finished first with a world record time of 3:31.54.

Despite setting the world record in the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke at the 2004 U.S. Olympic trials, Hansen did not manage to win a gold medal in either event at the 2004 Summer Olympics, as he settled for silver in the 100 and bronze in the 200. He would win a gold for his role in the world-record setting 4x100 medley relay. His split on the relay turned out to be one of the fastest in history. There was controversy in Kosuke Kitajima's win in the 100 m breaststroke. The underwater cameras revealed what look like to be an illegal dolphin kick at the start, which could have made the difference in the race. However, the dolphin kick went undetected by race officials, so the US Team could not lodge a protest.At the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Hansen won gold in the 100 m breaststroke, 200 m breaststroke, and 4×100 m medley relay. In his first event, the 100 m breaststroke, Hansen won with a time of 59.37, a championship record. In his second event, the 200 m breaststroke, Hansen won with a time of 2:09.85. In the 4×100 m medley relay, Hansen swam his leg with a time of 59.33 and the American squad finished first with a time of 3:31.85. At the 2006 ConocoPhillips National Championships, Hansen lowered both his world records in the 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke to 59.13 in the 100 m and 2:08.74 in the 200 m. At the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships held in Victoria, Canada, Hansen again lowered his world record time in the 200 m breaststroke to 2:08.50. It is notable that he was a quarter of a second behind his best time at the 150 m mark, but he came back 0.6 second faster with a 33.38. At the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, Hansen won gold in the 100 m breaststroke and silver in the 50 m breaststroke. Hansen also was entered in the 200 m breaststroke but did not start. In the 100 m breaststroke, Hansen won with a time of 59.80, 0.16 faster than second place finisher Kosuke Kitajima. In the 50 m breaststroke, Hansen place second with a time of 27.69, just 0.03 slower than first place finisher Oleg Lisogor.Hansen swam the 100 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics, his only individual event, finishing in fourth place but earned a gold medal for his part in the 4x100 medley relay.He lost the medal while on a flight home from a party in his hometown near Philadelphia to Austin. It was returned to him the following day.

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