Missy Franklin biography
Missy Franklin, in full Melissa Jeanette Franklin, (born May 10, 1995, Pasadena, California, U.S.), American swimmer who gained 5 medals, together with 4 golds, on the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Franklin was born in California, however her household moved to Centennial, Colorado, the place she started swimming on the age of 5. By the time she was in her early teenagers, Franklin had set various nationwide age-group information, and in 2009 she was named to the U.S. nationwide youth group. The following 12 months she joined the U.S. nationwide group and competed on the FINA short-course (25-metres) world championships, incomes the silver medal within the 200-metre backstroke and securing one other silver as a part of the American 4 × 100-metre medley relay group.
It was not till the 2011 FINA world championships, nonetheless, that Franklin really established herself as a significant drive within the sport. Her gold-medal-winning time (2 min 5.10 sec) within the 200-metre backstroke was the third quickest within the historical past of the occasion. She added one other gold within the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay, serving to the American ladies to victory with a outstanding leadoff swim (1 min 55.06 sec) that was truly half a second sooner than the first-place finisher’s time within the particular person 200-metre freestyle race. In addition, Franklin secured a 3rd gold within the 4 × 100-metre medley relay, a silver within the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay, and a bronze within the 50-metre backstroke. Later in 2011, within the 200-metre backstroke on the short-course World Cup meet in Berlin, she achieved her first world report (2 min 0.03 sec). Two months later, on the 2011 Duel within the Pool short-course competitors in Atlanta, she contributed to a different world report (3 min 45.56 sec) within the ladies’s 4 × 100-metre medley relay.
Franklin exceeded expectations on the 2012 London Olympics, taking gold in each the 100- and 200-metre backstroke occasions and successful the latter in world report time (2 min 4.06 sec). She helped set one other world report (3 min 52.05 sec) within the 4 × 100-metre medley relay and secured a fourth gold within the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay. She additionally earned a bronze medal within the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay. In addition, Franklin made historical past by changing into the primary American lady to swim in seven occasions at a single Games. She additionally had a record-setting efficiency on the 2013 world championships, the place she turned the primary feminine swimmer to win six gold medals—within the 100- and 200-metre backstroke, the 200-metre freestyle, the 4 ×100- and 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay, and the 4 × 100-metre medley relay.
At the 2015 world championships, Franklin gained gold medals as a member of the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay and the 4 × 100-metre freestyle blended relay groups, in addition to one silver (200-metre backstroke) and two bronzes (200-metre freestyle and 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay). She had a disappointing efficiency on the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, successful only one medal: a gold for swimming within the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay preliminary warmth. In December 2018 Franklin retired from aggressive swimming.