Janet Evans

Janet Beth Evans is an American former competition swimmer who specialized in distance freestyle events. Born on August 28, 1971, in Fullerton, California, Evans grew up in neighboring Placentia where she began swimming competitively as a child. By the age of 11, she was already setting national age group records in distance events. Evans went on to win a total of four gold medals at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. She attended Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team from 1989 to 1991. Evans received the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year in 1988–89.