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Missy Franklin has competed for USA Missy Franklin has won 5 gold medals at the Olympic Games Missy Franklin has won 1 bronze medal at the Olympic Games

Missy Franklin is a swimmer who has competed for the United States. She qualified for the U.S. swimming team at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympic Games. She won a total of six medals throughout her Olympic career, including two individual golds in the women's backstroke double (100 and 200). She also held the long-course world record in the women's 200 metres backstroke for seven years until Regan Smith attained this feat at the 2019 world championships.

At her first Olympics in London, Franklin won a total of five medals, four of which were gold. She also struck the women's backstroke double for the first time in twelve years, solidifying gold-medal triumphs in both the 100 and 200. She also added her third and fourth career gold as a member of the U.S. women's 4x200 metres freestyle and 4x100 metres medley relay teams and a bronze in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay.

Franklin's swimming program for Rio de Janeiro 2016 was trimmed into half from the seven events that she competed in London 2012. She won her fifth career gold medal in the women's 4x200 metres freestyle relay for swimming in the heats but failed to enter the finals of her individual events. In 2018, Franklin officially retired from competitive swimming.

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Rank
2012 Women's 100m freestyle 5th
Women's 200m freestyle 4th
Women's 100m backstroke Gold
Women's 200m backstroke Gold
Women's 4x100m freestyle relay Bronze
Women's 4x200m freestyle relay Gold
Women's 4x100m medley relay Gold
2016 Women's 200m freestyle 13th
Women's 200m backstroke 14th
Women's 4x200m freestyle relay Gold

2012[]

Discipline Round Time
100 metres freestyle Heats 54.26
Semifinal 53.59
Final 53.64
200 metres freestyle Heats 1:57.62
Semifinal 1:57.57
Final 1:55.82
100 metres backstroke Heats 59.37
Semifinal 59.12
Final 58.33 AR
200 metres backstroke Heats 2:07.54
Semifinal 2:06.84
Final 2:04.06 WR
4x100 metres freestyle relay Heats 3:36.53
(Reserve)
Final 3:34.24
(53.52 split)
AR
4x200 metres freestyle relay Heats 7:50.75
(1:58.31 split)
Final 7:42.92
(1:55.96 split)
OR
4x100 metres medley relay Heats 3:58.88
(Reserve)
Final 3:52.05
(58.50 split)
WR

2016[]

Discipline Round Time
200 metres freestyle Heats 1:57.12
Semifinal 1:57.56
Final Did not advance
200 metres backstroke Heats 2:09.36
Semifinal 2:09.74
Final Did not advance
4x200 metres freestyle relay Heats 7:47.77
(1:57.03 split)
Final 7:43.03
(Reserve)
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