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Natalie Coughlin REAL Hand signed Autographed 8x10
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Natalie Anne Coughlin Hall(born August 23, 1982) is an American competition swimmer and twelve-time Olympic medalist. While attending the
University of California, Berkeley
, she became the first woman ever to swim the
100-meter backstroke
(long course) in less than one minute—ten days before her 20th birthday in 2002. At the
2008 Summer Olympics
, she became the first U.S. female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympiad, and the first woman ever to win a 100-meter backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics.
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At the
2012 Summer Olympics
, she earned a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.
Coughlin's success has earned her the
World Swimmer of the Year Award
once and
American Swimmer of the Year Award
three times. She has won a total of sixty medals in major international competition, twenty-five gold, twenty-two silver, and thirteen bronze spanning the Olympics, the
World
, the
Pan Pacific
Championships, and the
Pan American Games
.