Hot & Sexy Australian Swimmer Stephanie Rice

Stephanie Louise Rice OAM (born June 17, 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian swimmer. Currently holds the world record in the 400 m medley of individual women, and won three gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Rice is trained by Michael Bohl of San Pedro West Swimming Club in Brisbane. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on January 26, 2009.

Rice was the gold medalist in the 200 individual medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. In the 2007 Melbourne World Championships she won a bronze medal in the 200 individual medley in a time of 2 minutes 11.42 seconds, breaking the previous record of Australia for a second.

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Rice won three gold medals (each in world record time) in the 200 m and 400 m individual medleys in the relay 4 x 200 freestyle. By winning the individual medley 400m, Rice won its first Olympic medal, the first gold medal of the Games and Australia its 400th summer Olympic medal. Recording a time of 4:29.45, which regained the world record Hoff, surpassing the mark of 1.67 seconds and became the first woman to break the 4:30 mark in the event.

Rice attended Clayfield College in her high school years in Brisbane, Queensland. She was linked romantically with fellow Australian swimmer and 50m freestyle world record holder Eamon Sullivan. They finished their two-year relationship in July 2008, just before the Beijing Olympics. The couple lived in separate states of Australia (Western Australia Queensland Sullivan and Rice) and said the stress of living so far and the upcoming Olympic Games as a result of the breakup, but acknowledged that the two are still good friends.

In September 2010, Rice was attacked when using Twitter as a response to the defeat of the Wallabies, the Springboks, using the word "faggots". Rice, then remove the remark and apologized for it, however sponsor Jaguar broke relations and requested the return of a vehicle loan.

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Sexy American Swimmer Haley Cope

Haley Cope (born April 11, 1979 in Crescent City, California) is a former American swimmer. She won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, eight world championship medals, and held a world record in the 50 meter backstroke.


Cope swam at the University of California, Berkeley from 1998 to 2001. In 2000, she was named the Pac-10 Conference swimmer of the year, and helped lead California to a fourth-place finish nationally. Cope was the second of three consecutive conference swimmers of the year from Berkeley; Marylyn Chiang in 1999, herself in 2000, and Natalie Coughlin in 2001, 2002, and 2003. At the 2000 NCAA national championships in Indianapolis, she swam the 50 metre backstroke in 27.25 seconds, equaling Sandra Völker's short course world record.

She graduated in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in mass communications. In 2001, she won a gold medal in the 50 meter backstroke at the World Aquatics Championship, and two medals at the final Goodwill Games. Her 50 meter backstroke performance at the Goodwill Games was a record time for the competition.

After graduating from Berkeley, Cope continued her swimming career, winning her second world championship at the 2002 Short Course World Swimming Championships held in Moscow. She won gold medal in the 100 meter backstroke, and two silver medals in the 50 meter backstroke, and the 4x100 meter medley relay, in which she swam the backstroke leg. In 2003, she swam at her second long course world championships in Barcelona, where she won a silver medal in the 4x100 meter relay.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Greece, Cope swam the backstroke in the preliminary heat of the Women's 4 x 100 meter medley relay. In the finals, the American team took second place, and Cope was awarded a silver medal. Cope's last major international competition was in October 2004, at the 2004 Short Course World Swimming Championships in Indianapolis. In Indianapolis, she repeated as world champion in the 100 meter backstroke, as well as winning the 50 meter backstroke. As part of the American team, she won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 relay.

Cope married her former coach, Brian Clark in 2002, and has two children. She is currently operating a swimming school in Chico. In 2004, Cope posed nude for the September issue of Playboy Magazine.

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Sexy Olympic Swimmer and Model Amanda Beard

Amanda Ray Beard (born October 29, 1981 in Newport Beach, California), is an American Olympic-level swimmer and model. 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.

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.

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



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. 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.


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 United States Flag Code with the blue field to the upper right. Shortly after the PETA campaign was released, accusations of hypocrisy surfaced where Beard told a fashion blogger the year before that her favorite shoes were leather sandals and that she would never buy a low-quality jacket during an interview with SmartMoney magazine.

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Hot Synchronized Swimmer Kristina Lum

Kristina Michelle Lum (Bonn October 18, 1976 in Santa Clara, California, United States) is Synchronized Swimmer. Kristina is an Olympic synchronized swimmer. She was one of the first female swimmers to use a male partner.



Synchronised swimmer Kristina Lum not only captivates audiences with her finesse in the sport, but also because of her good looks.

American Swimmer and Olympic Champion Ashley Tappin

Ashley Tappin (born December 18, 1974 in Marietta, Georgia) is an American swimmer and olympic champion. She competed at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, where she received a gold medal in 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (she participated in the heats, but not in the final).
At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney she received two gold medals, in 4 × 100 m medley relay, and in 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, again by participating in the heats only.

Tappin attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she swam for the Florida Gators swimming & diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition in 1993 and 1994.



Tappin is a veteran celebrity swimmer for Swim Across America (SAA), a charitable organization that raises funds for cancer research, and she has participated in three SAA events in Boston, Massachusetts.



Tappin, who retired from competitive swimming in 2001, is a three-time Olympic Gold Medalist. In the summer of 2003, Tappin established a non-profit organization called "Paddle and Paint" for the purpose of educating public school kids in the sixth grade on water safety and art appreciation. The project was done in conjunction with New Orleans Saints assistant coach Joe Baker at the UNO Lakefront Arena Natatorium.



During her time off, Ashley began a successful modeling career and was offered a part on Baywatch, which she refused when they moved the set from CA to HI. Now Head Coach of Women's Swimming and Diving at the University of New Orleans, Ashley has participated in three SAA events in Boston Harbor.

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Sexy French Swimmer Laure Manaudou

Laure Manaudou (born 9 October 1986 in Villeurbanne, Rhone) was a French Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She is the daughter of a French father and a Dutch mother.



Manaudou currently holds the world records for the 400 meter freestyle (short course), but she has lost her "long course" record, which is set in 50 meter pools. She won the gold medal in the women's 400 meter freestyle at the 2004 Athens Olympics. It was France's first gold medal ever in women's swimming and the first swimming gold medal won by a French athlete since Jean Boiteux's victory in the 400 meter men's freestyle event at Helsinki in 1952.



Laure Manadou has won three gold medals at the 2004 European Swimming Championships in Madrid, Spain, for the 100 metre backstroke, 400 metre freestyle, and the 4×100 metre team medley races.



From 2001-2007, Manaudou was coached by Philippe Lucas. She competed for the Melun-Dammarie club until 2006, when she moved to Canet-en-Roussillon.



Manaudou won four medals in the European Championships of 2007, despite reported conflicts between her and Luca Marin, her Italian ex-boyfriend.



On 17 September 2009, at 22 years of age, Manaudou announced through the newspaper Le Parisien her retirement from competitive swimming. She was quoted as saying, "It came to me little by little. I didn’t make it on impulse. It has matured slowly.”



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Hot American Swimmer Natalie Coughlin

Natalie Anne Coughlin (born August 23, 1982) is an American swimmer who has represented the United States at the 2004 and the 2008 Olympics.



At the 2008 Olympics, she became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics.



Coughlin is known for her dominance in a short course pool and for her underwater kicking ability.



Coughlin competed in season 9 of Dancing with the Stars with season 1 professional champion, Alec Mazo. She was eliminated on the fifth episode.



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