Amanda Beard

After winning a gold medal in 2004, the 25-year-old California native was crowned FHM’s “World’s Sexiest Athlete” in 2006. A natural exhibitionist, the sexy swimmer admitted to FHM, “I’d much rather be in the pool naked.”





Biography for Amanda Beard

Date of Birth
29 October 1981, Newport Beach, California, USA

Birth Name
Amanda Ray Beard

Height
5' 9" (1.75 m)





Trivia

Holds the world record in the 200-meter breaststroke.

Won her first gold medal at the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta, Georgia when she was 14-years-old.

Won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

Won a gold (her first individual gold in the 200-meter breaststroke) and 2 silver medals at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

World-record holder in the 200-meter breaststroke, which she set at the Olympic Trials in July 2004.





Seven-time Olympic medalist, swimming in three Olympic Games (1996, 2000, 2004); plans to compete in Beijing
In 2004, won the 200m breaststroke title and finished second in the 400m medley relay and 200m individual medley, breaking Summer Sanders' 12-year-old American record
In 1996, at 14, earned a gold medal in the medley relay and swept the silver medals in the 100m and 200m breaststroke … in 2000, completed an inspirational comeback with a bronze medal in the 200m breast.
World record-holder in the 200m breast; American record-holder in the 100m, 200m breast and 200m IM

























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