Elizabeth Beisel
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| Full name | Elizabeth Lyon Beisel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Bekel," "Diesel" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 United States
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August 18, 1992 Saunderstown, Rhode Island |
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| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 137 lb (62 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke, individual medley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Bluefish Swim Club, Gator Swim Club (Florida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elizabeth Lyon Beisel (born August 18, 1992) is an American competition swimmer who specializes in backstroke and individual medley events. Beisel placed second in the 400m individual medley at the 2016 US Olympic Swimming Trials, qualifying for her third Olympic team. She has won a total of nine medals in major international competition, four gold, one silver, and four bronze spanning the Olympics, World Aquatics, and the Pan Pacific championships. Beisel competed in the 200-meter backstroke and 400-meter individual medley events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, placing fifth and fourth, respectively, in the world. She won the silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley and bronze in the 200-meter backstroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Beisel was born in Saunderstown, Rhode Island in 1992, the daughter of Ted and Joan Beisel. She graduated from North Kingstown High School in North Kingstown, Rhode Island in 2010. Her mother was a college swimmer for the University of Rhode Island. From the age of 12 through high school, she competed for the Bluefish Swim Club while training under coach Chuck Batchelor. Beisel became a member of the U.S. national swim team when she was 13 years old.
Beisel accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she swam for coach Gregg Troy's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 2011 to 2014. She won nine Southeastern Conference (SEC) individual championships, and was honored as the SEC Female Swimmer of the Year in 2012. Beisel also won the NCAA individual championships in the 200-yard backstroke in 2012, and the 400-yard individual medley in 2013, leading the Lady Gators to a seventh, tenth, sixth and sixth-place team finishes at the NCAA national championships. She received eighteen All-American honors and earned first-team Academic All-America recognition.
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