article by Nicholas Pucci
Being beautiful is certainly not an element that influences sports performancebut in the case of Amanda Beard, American swimmer born October 29, 1981 in Newport Beach, California, and specialist in the breaststrokemother nature has been truly benevolent.
Beard, who also enjoys considerable success outside the swimming pool as a model, given her indisputable beauty, He came to prominence at the age of 14 at the 1995 Pan Pacific Games in Atlanta, where he won bronze in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke, as well as silver in the 4×100 medley relay.behind the Australian quartet, and then win both qualifying races at the Indianapolis Olympic Trials ahead of the 1996 Atlanta Games.
In the Georgian pool, Beard proves equal to the task, with silver in the 100m breaststroke with a US record of 1’08″09 behind South African Penny Heyns, who won in 1’07″83 and then made a double in the double distance with the Olympic record of 2’25″41, with Beard again in silver in 2’25″75, to which she added her contribution by swimming the breaststroke leg in the 4×100 medley relay that won gold in front of the Australian girls.
Did not qualify for the 1998 World Cup in Perth, Beard only made it to the 200m breaststroke for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where she managed to climb onto the podium with bronze behind Hungarian Agnes Kovacs and compatriot Kristy Kowal.to then forcefully return to the limelight on the occasion of the “Pan Pacific Games” Of Yokohama 2002, where he won both the 100 (1’08″22) and the 200 breaststrokepreceding the Australian champion Leisel Jones by only 0″11 hundredths (2’26″31 to 2’26″42), and then take silver with the 4×100 medley relay behind the usual Australians.
The feat paves the way for Beard’s two best seasons, which At the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona she came second (1’06″80 to 1’07″42) behind the Chinese Luo Xuejuan in the 100m breaststroke, before winning the world title in the double distance, also setting a world record of 2’22″99. and again preceding Jones.
The following year, At the 2004 Athens Games, after having regained the world record snatched from her by Jones at the Long Beach Trials in 2’22″44, Beard fulfilled her dream of Olympic gloryearning it – after having failed to reach the podium in the 100m breaststroke, finishing in fourth place in 1’07″44 in the race won again by Luo Xuejuan – with the triumph in the 200 breaststroke, swum with the Olympic record of 2’23″37once again relegating Leisel Jones to second place, who took her usual revenge with the 4×100 medley relay.
After a temporary abandonment of the activity, with the baton of the specialty passed to compatriot Rebecca Soni, Beard attempts a comeback in view of the 2008 Beijing Games, managing to snatch the Olympic qualification in the 200m breaststrokebehind Soni, at Trials of Omaha, but unable to get beyond the batteries in the Chinese capital.
Patience, in your case it doesn’t really seem risky to say that, Besides being beautiful and talented, Amanda Beard was also a winner. Could you want more from life?
2024-07-30 18:00:00
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