Emma Weyant (born December 24, 2001) is an American competitive

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. She was the US national champion at the individual medley. She qualified for the

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in the 400m

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and won the silver medal in this event.

Background

Weyant lived in Sarasota and swam for the Sarasota Sharks while attending Riverview High School.

Career

At the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, contested in August in

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, Weyant won the gold medal in the 400 meter individual medley with a time of 4:40.64 and the bronze medal in the 800 meter freestyle with a time of 8:38.88, which was less than 10 seconds behind gold medalist

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, she won a silver medal in the women's 400 individual medley. In her debut season at the

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, Weyant finished second in the 500-yard freestyle at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, with her time of 4:34.99 ranking as her career best. In 2022 Weyant transferred to the

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* Living people 2001 births American female medley swimmers Sportspeople from Sarasota, Florida Swimmers from Florida Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming Virginia Cavaliers women's swimmers Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming 21st-century American women {{US-swimming-bio-stub