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Franklin won her first gold medal of the 2015 championships as a member of the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. She also won a silver in the 200-meter backstroke event and gold in the mixed 4×100-meter freestyle relay.
Jul 4, 2024 · Missy Franklin may be retired from professional swimming, but she still has plenty to say about the sport. In January 2024, the Olympian launched a podcast called "Unfiltered Waters" with fellow swimmer Katie Hoff.
Dec 22, 2023 · Missy Franklin won four gold medals in London as a 17-year-old, becoming a new star of U.S. swimming. “I truly recognized I was a role model at that point,” she said.
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Mar 8, 2024 · Aged 17, Missy Franklin became a swimming superstar when she won four Olympic gold medals at the London Olympics in 2012. But she could never repeat that success at the next Olympics.
Jul 3, 2024 · Missy Franklin (born May 10, 1995, Pasadena, California, U.S.) is a former American swimmer who won five medals, including four golds, at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Franklin was born in California, but her family moved to Centennial, Colorado, where she began swimming at the age of five.
Five-time Olympic swimming gold medallist Missy Franklin has announced her retirement from swimming. In a letter to ESPN, the 23-year-old wrote, "I'm ready for the rest of my life." Aged 17, Franklin gained worldwide attention when she won four golds at London 2012.
Missy Franklin is a five-time Olympic gold medalist and multiple world record-holder in the sport of swimming. Franklin became a household name during the 2012 Olympic Games in London when she won four gold medals and one bronze medal, becoming one of the most decorated athletes of the Games.
A teenage star of the pool at London 2012, where she won four gold medals, and the most decorated female swimmer in the history of the World Championships, the USA’s Missy Franklin is aiming to bounce back after a missing out on individual success at Rio 2016.
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