1. Allison Marie Wagner was born on July 21,1977 and is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder.
10 Facts About Allison Wagner
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Allison Wagner's parents required her and her two brothers to participate in sports.
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Allison Wagner's brothers picked American football and soccer; she attempted ballet, softball and soccer before discovering that she was good at swimming.
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Allison Wagner won the gold medal in the 200-meter individual medley and the silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley at the 1993 FINA Short Course World Championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
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Allison Wagner's winning time in the 200-meter medley stood as the world record in the event for over fourteen years until Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry broke it at the World Short Course Championships in April 2008 in Manchester, England, when Coventry clocked 2:06.13.
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Allison Wagner graduated early from high school to accept an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she swam for coach Chris Martin and coach Kevin Thornton's Florida Gators swimming and diving teams in National Collegiate Athletics Association competition from 1995 to 1998.
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Allison Wagner was named the SEC Female Swimmer of the Year in 1995 and 1996 and the Gators' Most Valuable Swimmer in 1996, and received eleven All-American honors.
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At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Allison Wagner won the silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley, finishing second behind Ireland's Michelle Smith.
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Besides Michelle Smith in the 1996 Olympics, Allison Wagner finished second behind China's Dai Guohong in the 1993 Short Course World Championships and China's Lu Bin at the 1994 Worlds.
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Allison Wagner is a painter and founding member of the International Olympic organization called Art of the Olympians.