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| Full name | Annette Elizabeth Salmeen | ||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1974-12-07)December 7, 1974 (age 50) Ann Arbor, Michigan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly,freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of California, Los Angeles | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Annette Elizabeth Salmeen (born December 7, 1974)[1] is an American biochemist, a 1997Rhodes Scholar[2] and a gold medalist at the1996 Summer Olympics.[3]
Salmeen was born inAnn Arbor, Michigan. She was a competitive swimmer by the age of 9, and became a standout swimmer atHuron High School in Ann Arbor, where she was co-captain of the girls' swimming team for two years.[4] While at Huron, Salmeen was three-time state champion in the 500-yard freestyle, and once in the 100-yard butterfly.[4] Salmeen went on to swim at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she was a co-captain, four-timeAll-American, and anNCAA national champion in the 200-yard butterfly.[5] She won a bronze medal in the 200-meter butterfly[6] at the1995 World University Games in Fukuoka, Japan.[3] Salmeen qualified for the U.S. Olympic Team for the1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where she earned a gold medal for swimming for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of thewomen's 4×200-meter freestyle relay.[3] In individual competition at the Olympics, she finished 4th in the B Final (12th overall) in thewomen's 200-meter butterfly.[7]
Salmeen graduated from UCLA in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue aDoctorate of Philosophy (D. Phil.) in biochemistry atOxford University.[8] During her four years atSt John's College, Oxford,[9] she was a member of the Oxford University Swimming Club, where she set three long-course records and six on the short-course.[5]
She earned her doctorate in 2001,[8] and returned to the U.S. as a postdoctoral fellow atStanford University.[10] In 2005, she was named to the board of theUnited States Anti-Doping Agency and again came back to Stanford University where she teaches as of 2022.[11]
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