Diana Marie Munz (born June 19, 1982), later known by her married name Diana DePetro, is an American former competition

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and Olympic champion from

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. She represented the United States at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

in Sydney, Australia, where she won a gold medal in the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay and a silver medal in 400-meter freestyle. Four years later she added a bronze medal in the 800-meter freestyle to her Olympic medal collection. She also has 3 daughters; Sydney (age 11), Reagan (age 8), and Penelope (age 2). She won four events at the

2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships The ninth edition of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a long course (50 m) event, was held in 2002 in Yokohama International Swimming Pool in Yokohama, Japan, from August 24–29. One world record A world record is usually th ...

in Yokohama; and over her career garnered five medals at the

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. Munz is the daughter of Robert Munz, an

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r who competed at the 1964 World Figure Skating Championships. As of August 2006, she is married to Palmer DePetro. She has a daughter named Sydney. As of September 2011, Munz is the Director of Swimming at the SPIRE Institute, an athletic facility in Geneva, Ohio.

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* * * * 1982 births Living people American female freestyle swimmers John Carroll University alumni Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in swimming Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming Sportspeople from Cleveland Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics People from Cuyahoga County, Ohio 21st-century American women {{US-swimming-Olympic-medalist-stub

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