Elaine Breeden Penrose (born November 18, 1988),

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Elaine Breeden, is an American competition

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and Olympic silver medalist. Breeden qualified to compete in the 100-meter and 200-meter

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events at the

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by placing second and first, respectively, in those events at the U.S. Olympic Trials. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, she advanced to the semifinals of the women's 100-meter butterfly, and finished seventh in the final of the women's 200-meter butterfly. She earned a silver medal by swimming for the second-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter medley relay. Breeden attended

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, and swam for the

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women's swimming and diving team in

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(NCAA) competition from 2007 to 2010. As a college swimmer, she was a three-time NCAA national champion in the 200-yard butterfly (2007, 2009, 2010), as well as the NCAA champion in the 100-yard butterfly (2010). She received a total of 24 All-American honors.

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* * * * * * 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Lexington, Kentucky American female butterfly swimmers Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming Stanford Cardinal women's swimmers Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Summer World University Games medalists in swimming Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade FISU World University Games silver medalists for the United States Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in swimming Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in swimming Swimmers from Kentucky {{US-swimming-Olympic-medalist-stub

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