OLYMPICS U.S. GOLD MEDALIST JANET EVANS SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED WHEATIES BOX 1992

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JANET EVANS SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED WHEATIES BOX 1992.
Evans is one of the greatest competitive swimmers OF ALL TIME.
She
specialized in distance freestyle events. Evans was a world champion and world record-holder, and won a total of four gold medals at the 1988 and the 1992 Olympics.
In 1987, she broke the world records in the 400-meter, 800-meter, and 1,500-meter freestyle distances. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, she won three individual gold medals
AND
set a new world record in the 400-meter freestyle event. This record stood for 18 years until Laure Manaudou broke it in May 2006.
Evans held the 1,500-meter freestyle record, set in March 1988, through June 2007, when it was broken by Kate Ziegler
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Evans held the world record in the 800-meter freestyle, 8:16:22, that she set in August 1989, until it was broken by Rebecca Adlington In August 2008. Evans's 800-meter record was one of the longest-standing ones EVER in swimming, and it went unbroken through FOUR Olympic Games (1992–2004).
After
1988, Evans continued to dominate the world's long-distance swimming competitions (400 meters and above). She became the FIRST woman to win back-to-back Olympic and world championship titles in any one swimming event by winning the 1988 and 1992 Olympic gold medals and the 1991 and 1994 world championships in the 800-meter freestyle race. She would astonishingly go undefeated in all of the 400-, 800-, and 1500-meter freestyle events for over five years.
Evans won the 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle events at the U.S. National Championships 12 times each, the largest number of national titles in one event by an American swimmer in the 100-year history of the competition.
At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona she won the 800-meter freestyle race
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Evans ended her swimming career, for all practical purposes, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She did not win any medals, but she did add one more highlight to her life. She was given the honor of carrying the Olympic torch in the opening ceremony, and she handed the torch to the American boxing legend Muhammad Ali to light the cauldron.
At the end of Evans's swimming career, she held seven world records, five Olympic medals (including four gold medals), and 45 American national titles – third only to Tracy Caulkins and Michael Phelps.
Evans was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 2001.