Allison Rodgers Schmitt (born June 7, 1990) is an American competition

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who specializes in

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events. She is a four-time Olympian and a ten-time

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ist. In her Olympic debut at the

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in Beijing, Schmitt won a bronze medal as a member of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Four years later, at the

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in London, she won a total of five medals, three of them gold, in the 200-meter freestyle (in which she set a new Olympic record), in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, and in the 4×100-meter medley relay (in which a new world record was set); and she also won a silver medal in the 400 meter freestyle, and a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay. At the

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Schmitt won a gold medal in the 4×200 meter freestyle relay and a silver medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay. It was the first Olympics where she served as captain of the US Olympic swim team. Schmitt was the only second-time captain for the US Olympic swim team at the

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. At the 2020 Olympics, Schmitt won a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, swimming in the prelims of the race, and a silver medal swimming in the final of the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. In total, Schmitt has won twenty-five medals in major international competitions: thirteen gold, nine silver, and three bronze spanning the

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, the

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, the Pan Pacific Championships, and the

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. She was a four-time

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(NCAA) national champion in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle swimming events during college, and was a member of the

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team that won the NCAA Division I Women's team title in 2013. Schmitt was named

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's Swammy Award-winner for Female Swimmer of the Year in 2012.

Personal life

Schmitt was born in

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in 1990 to Ralph and Gail Schmitt. Raised as one of five

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in what is still her hometown of

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(a suburb of

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), she went to Canton Charter Academy for elementary and middle school. Schmitt's father is a

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and her mother is a system project manager. Schmitt considers her parents to have been the most influential and helpful people in her life. "They are so supportive of my dreams and ambitions," she said in 2008, adding, "they have given me so many opportunities to excel in life and have set a good example for me to follow." She has an older sister named Kirsten who earned her bachelor's degree from the

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, and her

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degree from

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in St. Louis, Missouri. Her older brother, Derek, swam for the

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, and is now an assistant coach for the Arizona State Sun Devils swim team in Tempe, Arizona. Schmitt's younger twin sisters, Kari and Sara, played in the

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national championship games in 2008 and 2009,

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in varsity both

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and swimming during their four years in high school, and played

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. She started swimming at age eight, saying she followed her older sister, Kirsten, into it. "I thought about quitting," Schmitt said, "but stayed one more season and loved it." Prior to settling on swimming, she said she tried

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; and though she said she had the equipment for hockey, she decided to swim instead. From ages 10 through 13, Schmitt swam with the Ann Arbor Swim Club (AASC) in

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(which, in 2006, merged into Club Wolverine). In an interview during the 2012 Summer Olympics, Josh Morgan, her then-AASC coach, said there was no indication in those years just how fast she would one day become. He said she started to show real potential, later, in the spring of her junior year in high school when she went to a 2007 Junior National Team competition. Calling it "her first real breakout swim," he said she went "from pretty fast to really fast," dropping four to five seconds off her 200-meter freestyle short course time of normally around a minute fifty-two seconds, down to around a minute forty-seven, thereby putting Schmitt in what Morgan called "elite company." Schmitt went to Canton High School in

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, from which she graduated in the spring of 2008. During her senior year, as she continued to swim at what had, by then, become Club Wolverine on the

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campus in nearby Ann Arbor, she began training alongside Olympian

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under the guidance of Phelps's long-time coach,

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head coach Bob Bowman. Before the Summer Olympics in Beijing, having ended his tenure at University of Michigan, Bowman moved to

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in anticipation of being named the head coach and

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of the prestigious

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the following September. Both Phelps and Schmitt followed, with Schmitt moving to Baltimore just after her spring 2008 high school graduation in order to train full-time with Phelps and Bowman during the weeks leading-up to the 2008 Olympics (at which Schmitt won her first Olympic medal, a bronze in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay). After the Summer Olympics, in the fall of 2008, Schmitt moved to

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to become a freshman at the

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, majoring in psychology, and minoring in childhood and family development. She joined coach

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team, following her competition in the Summer Olympics under Bauerle, who was the women's swimming head coach. She participated in NCAA competition during her freshman,

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and junior years,GeorgiaDogs.com, Swimming & Diving
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. Retrieved July 14, 2012. ultimately becoming a four-time NCAA national champion by winning the 500-yard freestyle in 2009, 2010, and 2011, and the 200-yard freestyle in 2010. While at college in Athens, Schmitt also became involved in Athens Bulldog Swim Club (ABSC) competitions on the University of Georgia campus. During her first three years at the university, she trained with Phelps and Bowman in Baltimore only during summers, between semesters. However, in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she took the 2011–2012 school year (her senior year) off, and so did not compete with the Bulldogs that year; and, instead, she moved to Baltimore and trained full-time with Bowman and Phelps at the NBAC;Kristin Leigh Porter,
Schmitt looking for return to Olympics
" NCAA.com (June 26, 2012). Retrieved July 14, 2012. which training consisted of at least four hours in the pool and one hour on dry land six days a week. After the 2012 Summer Olympics, Schmitt returned to the University of Georgia to complete her senior year of college, She was the recipient of the

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for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of 2012–13. Following her return from London, Schmitt started suffering from depression, finding the increased public attention to be overwhelming. Her anguish led to bad swimming results, leading her to not qualify for various international competitions. After opening up her feelings to Phelps and Bowman in January 2015, Schmitt decided to attend therapy sessions in secret to her family. Once Schmitt's cousin April Bocian committed suicide in May, she opted to reveal herself to her family and also make her emotional issues public, feeling it would help others in the same situation. She has since been training under Bowman at

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, hoping to get in shape for a possible third Olympic appearance at the

. Schmitt wrote on the bio form for her

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organization membership that she enjoys

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, photography, playing outdoor sports and board games; and that her ultimate way to relax is watching a movie or getting a massage. Whenever she returns home to Canton she likes to visit the local youth swim clubs and high school swim teams, as a role model and mentor by swimming and talking with the young swimmers. "I love motivating these kids when they're just starting to pave their own paths in life," she said. About it all, Schmitt has said: "I didn't start swimming competitively until I was 10 and didn't really focus on it until I was 12, yet it's such a huge part of my life and I can't imagine my life without it. It's been an amazing journey, but more than that, it's shaped who I am as a person. The best part is all the friends I have made. I believe that I literally have the best friends anyone could ever imagine hoping for, and I met almost all of them because of swimming. Taking in all the memories with these amazing people, I feel pretty lucky with the paths I have crossed, and the people I have met because of swimming." Schmitt is a good friend of

International swimming career

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

, Schmitt won a bronze medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay with

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and

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. Swimming the lead-off leg, Schmitt recorded a split time of 1:57.71 and the American team finished with a time of 7:46.33, an American record. Schmitt also competed in the 200-meter freestyle, but did not advance past the semifinals, finishing in ninth place with a time of 1:58.01.

2009 World Aquatics Championships

At the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Schmitt competed in three events, the 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle, and the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. In her first event, the 400-meter freestyle, Schmitt recorded the second best time in the heats with a time of 4:02.80. However, in the final she placed 4th with a time of 4:02.51. In her second event, the 200-meter freestyle, she won a silver medal finishing behind world record holder

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by 1.98 seconds. Schmitt's time of 1:54.96 was good enough for the American record. In the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, she swam the final leg in 1:54.21 as the American team placed second to

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. The final time of 7:42.56 was just behind China's time of 7:42.08, but was good enough for the American record.

2011 World Aquatics Championships

At the

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in Shanghai, Schmitt won a gold medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay with

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, and

, with the team finishing ahead of Australia and China. As the anchor leg, Schmitt had a 1:56.49 split. Schmitt also competed in the individual 200-meter freestyle and finished sixth in the final (1:56.98).

2012 Summer Olympics

Medallistas de los 400m libre femenino en Londres 2012

At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, the U.S. qualifying meet for the 2012 Olympics, Schmitt made the U.S. Olympic team by finishing first in the 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle, and third in the 100-meter freestyle. In the 200-meter freestyle final, Schmitt broke her own American record of 1:54.96 with a time of 1:54.40. At the

in London, Schmitt won a total of five medals: three gold, one silver, and one bronze.Mercedes, Mejia; White, Jennifer (August 15, 2012)
"Olympic gold medalist Allison Schmitt happy to be home in Canton"
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''. Retrieved July 23, 2021. In her first event, the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, Schmitt won bronze with

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and

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, with the U.S. team finishing third behind the women's relay teams from Australia and the Netherlands. Swimming the anchor leg, Schmitt had a split of 53.54 seconds and the team finished with a total time of 3:34.24, an American record. Schmitt won the first individual Olympic medal of her career, a silver, in the 400-meter freestyle, and in doing so, set the American record for the event.Uhlmann, Steve (July 29, 2012)
"2012 London Olympics: Allison Schmitt Wins Silver In Women's 400m Freestyle"
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''. Retrieved July 23, 2021. Her time of 4:01.77 was just 0.32 seconds behind winner

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. In her second and last individual event, the 200-meter freestyle, Schmitt won gold while setting a new Olympic record of 1:53.61, which was also a new American record. In the race, Schmitt won by a margin of 1.97 seconds over Muffat. In the 4×200-meter freestyle relay, Schmitt earned her second gold after passing Australian

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and topping the field with a split of 1:54.09 as the anchor leg. Also on the winning 4×200-meter relay team were Missy Franklin,

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and

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. In her final event, the 4×100-meter medley relay, Schmitt won gold with Missy Franklin,

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, and Dana Vollmer. Swimming the freestyle leg, Schmitt recorded a time of 53.25, and the American team went on to set the

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with a time of 3:52.05, bettering the Chinese-owned record of 3:52.19 set in 2009.

2015 Pan American Games

After missing both the

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, Schmitt's performance at the 2014 National Championships was enough for the

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. The Pan Am Games in Toronto marked her first international tournament since the 2012 Short-Course World Championship. Schmitt earned the gold in the 200-meter freestyle, and was a member of the teams who won the 4×200-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter medley relays, all with competition records. She also earned a silver in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

2016 Summer Olympics

The 2016 United States Olympic Trials saw Schmitt finishing fourth at the 200m (1:56.72), qualifying her to the relay team. Schmitt became the ninth American female swimmer to appear in three Olympics, and only she and

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were members of each team since 2008. She was named one of the captains of the U.S. Olympic Swim Team, alongside Phelps, Beisel,

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, and

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. Schmitt earned her seventh Olympic medal by taking part in the qualifying heat of the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, and during the finals the U.S. team won the silver. Schmitt earned her fourth gold medal, and eighth Olympic medal, by swimming in the finals of the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay with Leah Smith,

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, and

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Allison Schmitt and Michael Phelps Rio 2016

2018 Pan Pacific Championships

August 2018, Schmitt won a silver medal as part of the women's 4x200-meter relay at the

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swimming the first leg of the relay in a 1:58.62."Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 2018: Total Ranking"
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2019 World Aquatics Championships

In July 2019, Schmitt competed at the

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. She won two silver medals, one in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay and one in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay."18th FINA World Championships: Results Book"
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''. July 28, 2019. Retrieved June 16, 2021.

2021

2020 United States Olympic Trials

On day three of the 2020 USA Swimming Olympic Trials, the 15th of June 2021, Schmitt swam in the prelims of the 200-meter freestyle, ranking 3rd for all prelims heats with a time of 1:57.84."2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Wave II: Women's 200m Freestyle Heats Results Summary"
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''. June 15, 2021. Retrieved June 15, 2021. Later in the same day, Schmitt competed in the semifinals of the same event swimming a 1:57.53, ranking 4th, and advancing to the final."2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Wave II: Women's 200m Freestyle Semifinals Results Summary"
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''. June 15, 2021. Retrieved June 15, 2021.Sutherland, James (June 15, 2021)
"2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Wave II: Day 3 Finals Live Recap"
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''. Retrieved June 15, 2021. During the finals on day four, she placed 2nd in the 200m freestyle with a 1:56.79, once again securing a spot on the Olympic team."2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Wave II: Women's 200m Freestyle Final Results Summary"
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''. June 16, 2021. Retrieved June 16, 2021.Zaccardi, Nick (June 16, 2021)
"Katie Ledecky, after chats with legends, wins two races in one night at Olympic Swimming Trials"
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''. Retrieved June 16, 2021. Schmitt's swim qualified her for the

in both the 200-meter freestyle individual event and 4x200-meter freestyle relay.Sutherland, James (June 16, 2021)
"2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Wave II: Day 4 Finals Live Recap"
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''. Retrieved June 16, 2021. This was the fourth Olympic Team Schmitt qualified for.Hart, Torrey (June 16, 2021)
"Allison Schmitt, 31, qualifies for fourth Olympic swimming team"
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''. Retrieved June 17, 2021. On day five of competition, Schmitt swam in the morning prelims of the 100-meter freestyle finishing with a time of 54.78, ranking 11th, and qualifying for the semifinals."2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Wave II: Women's 100m Freestyle Heats Results Summary"
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''. June 17, 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2021.Anderson, Jared (June 17, 2021)
"2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Wave II: Day 5 Prelims Live Recap"
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''. Retrieved June 17, 2021. In the semifinals, Schmitt placed 6th swimming a 54.08 and qualifying for the final."2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Wave II: Women's 100m Freestyle Semifinals Results Summary"
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''. June 17, 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2021. She swam a 54.12 in the final, finishing in sixth place, and giving her the potential of swimming on the 4x100-meter freestyle relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics for Team USA."2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Wave II: Women's 100m Freestyle Final Results Summary"
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''. June 18, 2021. Retrieved June 18, 2021.Sutherland, James (June 18, 2021)
"2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Wave II: Day 6 Finals Live Recap"
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2020 Summer Olympics

Schmitt was selected to serve as a USA swim team captain at the

, making it the second time she had been selected to serve as an Olympic team captain and making her the only second-time American swim team captain at the 2020 Olympics.Dornan, Ben (July 5, 2021)
"Murphy, Dressel, Schmitt & Manuel Named 2020 USA Olympic Swimming Captains"
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''. Retrieved July 5, 2021. On day one of competition at the Olympic Games, Schmitt swam in the prelims of the 4x100-meter freestyle relay, helping the relay finish fifth overall and advance to the final.Sutherland, James (July 24, 2021)
"Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Day 1 Prelims Live Recap"
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''. Retrieved July 24, 2021. In the final, the relay finished third and Schmitt won a bronze medal for her efforts on the relay in the prelims."Local swimmers Allison Schmitt, Catie DeLoof take bronze in 4x100 freestyle"
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''. July 24, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2021. In the prelims of the 200-meter freestyle on July 26, Schmitt qualified in 12th place for the semifinals with her time of 1:57.10.Anderson, Jared (July 26, 2021)
"Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap"
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''. Retrieved July 26, 2021.Murphy, Bryan (July 26, 2021)
"Ledecky Advances to Semifinals in 200m, Finals in 1500m Freestyle"
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''. Retrieved July 26, 2021. The next day, Schmitt finished tenth overall with a time of 1:56.87 in the semifinals and did not qualify for the final.Hart, Torrey (July 26, 2021)
"2012 Olympic champion Allison Schmitt misses out on 200m freestyle final in Tokyo"
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''. Retrieved July 26, 2021. On day six of competition, Schmitt swam the first leg of the 4x200-meter freestyle relay in the final of the event and helped the relay set a new Americas record of 7:40.73 and win the silver medal.Mizoguchi, Karen (July 29, 2021)
"Katie Ledecky, Allison Schmitt Lead U.S. Women's 4x200m Relay Team to Silver Medal at Tokyo Olympics"
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''. Retrieved October 25, 2021. Schmitt's employment of a slow lead-off

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, that is purposefully swimming a slower first leg of a relay to motivate the second, third, and fourth swimmers to split faster times than the first swimmer, caught the attention of ''

'' magazine who made her one of the headliners in an article published about the race as well as the

Foundation who nominated her for a Golden Goggle Award for "Relay Performance of the Year" as part of the relay team."Olympic Stars Headline USA Swimming Golden Goggle Awards Nominees"
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''. October 13, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2021.

Personal bests

Awards and honors

* 2012 Golden Goggle Award, Relay Performance of the Year: 4x100-meter freestyle relayWilson, Jenny (November 19, 2012)
"Golden Goggles: Award Winners"
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''. Retrieved October 15, 2021. * 2012 ''

'' Swammy Award, Swimmer of the Year (female)Keith, Braden (January 8, 2013)
"2012 Swammy Award: Female Swimmer Of The Year"
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''. Retrieved October 15, 2021. * 2013

(Swimming & Diving) * 2015 Golden Goggle Award, Perseverance Award"Ledecky wins 3 trophies; Phelps earns 1 at Golden Goggles"
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''. November 23, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2021. * 2019

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. * 2021 Golden Goggle Award nominee, Relay Performance of the Year: 4x200-meter freestyle relay

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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schmitt, Allison 1990 births Living people American female freestyle swimmers Georgia Bulldogs women's swimmers Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in swimming Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming People from Canton, Michigan Sportspeople from Michigan Sportspeople from Pittsburgh Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2015 Pan American Games World record setters in swimming Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics University of Georgia alumni Pan American Games medalists in swimming Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century American women

Personal life

International swimming career

2008 Summer Olympics

2009 World Aquatics Championships

2011 World Aquatics Championships

2012 Summer Olympics

2015 Pan American Games

2016 Summer Olympics

2018 Pan Pacific Championships

2019 World Aquatics Championships

2021

2020 United States Olympic Trials

2020 Summer Olympics

Personal bests

Awards and honors

See also

References

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