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Amanda Beard's Double Surprise: Married and Expecting

People - Found May. 12, 2009
Now Amanda Beard has two new reasons to celebrate: She just got hitched and is nearly 5

Posted on May 12, 2009, 2:13 am

Amanda Beard's double good news: married and pregnant

Daily India - Found May. 13, 2009
Washington, May 13: After winning seven Olympic medals in 2008 and making it to the glossy pages of magazines like Playboy and People, Amanda Beard

Posted on May 13, 2009, 10:29 am

Amanda Beard: Married and pregnant

Orange County Register - Found May. 12, 2009
The Orange County Register Comments | Recommend Former Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard, who draws nearly as much attention for what she does out of the

Posted on May 12, 2009, 9:46 am

Pool your resources: Keeping swimmer?s hair healthy

Examiner.com - Found Jun. 23, 2009
Just look at Olympic swimmer and model Amanda Beard, who graced the cover of Playboy in July of 2007. She?s consistently been able to keep...
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Kid CEO shares her money-making secrets - Sun Herald
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Sun Herald

Posted on June 23, 2009, 1:12 pm

DiRado shocked by her swim times

Press Democrat - Found Jul. 3, 2009
That places her on a list that includes Coughlin and other megastars such Katie Hoff, Amanda Beard, Summer Sanders and Tracy Caulkins.

Posted on July 3, 2009, 1:07 pm

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Daily Beast - Found Jun. 17, 2009
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LifeCoach: scaly skin and chocolate cravings - Telegraph
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Posted on June 17, 2009, 6:50 am

Truckee Tahoe Swim Team competes in Reno Gamble Meet, gets to meet ...

Reno Gazette-Journal - Found Jun. 30, 2009
This time, however, they were treated to visits from two additional gold medal winners: Rowdy Gaines and Amanda Beard, who were in Reno to...

Posted on June 30, 2009, 9:10 am

Indian Land Elementary School honor roll

Rock Hill Herald - Found Jun. 26, 2009
A-B honor roll Second grade: Cornelius Barber, Grayson Barber, Amanda Beard, Axel Betancourt Reyes, Dylan Boswell, Logan Broome, Abbey...

Posted on June 26, 2009, 3:26 am

Sharapova bashes Big Ben's fashion

Pittsburgh Tribune Review - Found Jun. 22, 2009
... good company: also on Sharapova's 'Worst Dressed' list are Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and gold-medal swimmers Michael Phelps and Amanda Beard.

Posted on June 22, 2009, 5:17 am

2 Amanda Beard surprises ? married, pregnant

MSNBC - Found May. 12, 2009
"I've always said, 'I want to get married barefoot on the sand,' " says Beard. And she did.
Amanda Beard's Double Surprise: Married ? and Expecting - People
Pregnant Amanda Beard & Sacha Brown married on remote& - Examiner.com
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Posted on May 12, 2009, 4:35 am

Amanda Beard Biography

Amanda Beard
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Amanda Beard

Amanda Beard (right) with Nastia Liukin backstage at the 2009 Heart Truth fashion show

Personal information
Full name: Amanda Beard
Nationality:  United States
Stroke(s): Breaststroke, Individual Medley
Date of birth: October 29, 1981 (1981-10-29) (age 27)
Place of birth: Newport Beach, California, United States
Height: 1.72 m (5 ft 7+12 in)

Amanda Ray Beard (born October 29, 1981 in Newport Beach, California), is an Olympic-level swimmer and model from the United States of America. Beard participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics, and 2008 Summer Olympics, capturing a total of seven medals, the most recent in the 2004 games. She held the world number one ranking of 200 meter breaststrokers in 2003. In U.S. competition, Beard won three 200 meter breaststroke, three 100 meter breaststroke, and two 200 meter individual medley US National titles.

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Career

1996 Summer Olympic Games

Beard made her first Olympic appearance at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games at the age of 14, while still a student at Irvine High School in Irvine, California.4 Her youth and shy manner captured the attention of the media, and she was often photographed clutching her teddy bear, even on the medal stand.

1996 Summer Olympics Events
Final medal count: 3 (1 gold, 2 silver, 0 bronze)
Date Event Final Time Place
July 23 200 m breaststroke 2:25.75 2nd
July 24 4x100 m medley 4:02.88 1st
July 26 100 m breaststroke 1:08.09 2nd

Beard became the second-youngest Olympic medalist in American swimming history.5

2000 Summer Olympic Games

2000 Summer Olympics Events
Final medal count: 1 (0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
Date Event Final Time Place
September 20 200 m breaststroke 2:25.35 3rd

Beard attended the University of Arizona where she won an individual NCAA Division I championship in 2001. In 2003, she became the world champion and american record holder in the 200-meter breaststroke.

2004 Summer Olympic Games

Beard made a good showing at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials, qualifying to participate in four events at the Athens games.

2004 Summer Olympics Events
Final medal count: 3 (1 gold, 2 silver, 0 bronze)
Date Event Final Time Place
August 16 100 m breaststroke 1:07.44 4th
August 17 200 m medley 2:11.70 2nd
August 19 200 m breaststroke 2:23.37 1st
August 21 4x100 m medley 3:59.12 2nd

2008 Summer Olympic Games

At the 2008 US Olympic Swim Trials, Beard finished second in the 200 meter breaststroke event, and she qualified for her fourth consecutive Olympics. On 30 July 2008, at the US swimming team's final training in Singapore, Beard, together with Dara Torres and Natalie Coughlin, were elected co-captains of the US Olympic women’s swimming team.6

2008 Summer Olympics Events
Final medal count: 0 (0 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze)
Date Event Final Time Place
August 14 200 m breaststroke 2:27.70 DNA
  • DNA - Did not advance

In Beijing, Beard failed to reach the semifinals in the 200 meter breaststroke, placing 18th in the preliminaries.

Modeling and Advertising

Her modeling work has included appearances in FHM7, the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, and she posed nude for the July 2007 issue of Playboy magazine.8

She is a spokeswoman for Defenders of Wildlife, and enjoys interior decorating. Both of her sisters, Leah and Taryn, are swimmers. Amanda placed eighth in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Celebrity car race in 2006.

In November 2007, Beard made her first television commercial for GoDaddy entitled "Shock". It featured her "flashing" the seven Olympic medals she won from 1996-2004. Mark Spitz made a cameo appearance.9

In April 2008, she joined Fox Network's popular sports talk program, The Best Damn Sports Show Period as a correspondent, covering major sporting events.10

In 2008, Beard participated in an anti-fur campaign for the organization PETA. She was photographed nude in front of an American Flag. The flag in that photograph is hung incorrectly according the the United States Flag Code with the blue field to the upper right.11

Personal life

Beard is a vegetarian.12 She is married to photographer Sacha Brown, and is expecting her first child in September, 2009.13

Personal bests

Beard's personal bests in long-course meters are:

  • 100 m breaststroke: 1:07.42
  • 200 m breaststroke: 2:22.44 (3rd Fastest Swimmer in event)
  • 200 m individual medley: 2:11.70

References

  1. ^ "2004 Olympic Games swimming results". http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2004/schedules/117BySport.html. Retrieved on 2007-07-22. 
  2. ^ "ESPN Sydney Swimming". http://static.espn.go.com/oly/summer00/swimming/index.html. Retrieved on 2009-03-13. 
  3. ^ "7th FINA World Championships - 25 m Indianapolis 2004" (PDF). http://www.fina.org/events/SW/SWC(25 m)/Indianapolis_2004/results/pdf/Results_2004_World_Short_Course_25m_Indianapolis.pdf. Retrieved on 2007-07-24. 
  4. ^ Klein, Sarah A. "Conquering Heroine; Amanda Beard Welcomed Back After Olympic Trial Swim Wins", Los Angeles Times, March 15, 1996. Accessed January 15, 2008.
  5. ^ "Amanda Beard". http://swimming.teamusa.org/athlete/athlete/1891. Retrieved on 2008-08-14. 
  6. ^ "U.S. swim teams name captains for Beijing". http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2008/07/us-swim-teams-n.html. 
  7. ^ "FHM Modeling pictures". http://www.neathage.info/2008/08/olympic-neathage-amanda-beard/. Retrieved on August 18 2008. 
  8. ^ "ESPN article". http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=2901083. Retrieved on June 2 2008. 
  9. ^ "Amanda Beard GoDaddy 'Shock' commercial". 2007-11-07. http://www.timedfinals.com/07112007/amanda-beard-worlds-sexiest-athlete-flashes-go-daddy-magic/.  TimedFinals.com
  10. ^ "Amanda Beard on FSN's Best Damn Sports Show Period". http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/7327498/The-scoop-on-Amanda-Beard.  FoxSports.com
  11. ^ "Olympic Swimmer In Naked Controversy; PETA Sorry for Backwards Flag Flap". TV Guide. 2008-06-30. http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-News-Blog/Todays-News/Amanda-Beard-Naked/800044642.  TVGuide.com
  12. ^ "Amanda Beard Talks About Being Naked". Washington Post. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2008/08/amanda_beard_talks_about_being.html. Retrieved on June 4, 2009. 
  13. ^ "Amanda Beard Says Her Engagement 'Rocks!'". People Magazine. February 13, 2009. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20259278,00.html. Retrieved on February 14, 2009. 

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Records
Preceded by
Flag of the People's Republic of China Qi Hui
Women's 200m breaststroke
World Record holder
(equaled)

July 25, 2003 – July 10, 2004
Succeeded by
Flag of Australia Leisel Jones
Preceded by
Flag of Australia Leisel Jones
Women's 200m breaststroke
World Record holder

July 12, 2004 – July 29, 2005
Succeeded by
Flag of Australia Leisel Jones
Awards
Preceded by
Flag of the United States Natalie Coughlin
Swimming World American Swimmer of the Year
2003 – 2004
Succeeded by
Flag of the United States Katie Hoff
Preceded by
Flag of the United States Heather Mitts
ESPN Hottest Female Athlete
2005
Succeeded by
Flag of the United States Tanith Belbin