Trina Jackson
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Full name | Trina Marie Jackson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | February 16, 1977 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 128 lb (58 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Bolles Sharks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Arizona | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Trina Marie Jackson (born February 16, 1977), also known by her married name as Trina Falca, is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Jackson won a gold medal as a member of the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay, together with teammates Jenny Thompson, Cristina Teuscher and Sheila Taormina. The four Americans set a new Olympic record of 7:59.87 in the vent final.[1]
For high school, Jackson attended the Bolles School, a private prep school in Jacksonville, Florida, where she swam for coach Gregg Troy's Bolles high school swim team, a program with a reputation for producing future international swimmers and Olympians.[2] She graduated from the Bolles School in 1995.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Trina Jackson. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Bolles School, Athletics, Bolles Olympic Medalists. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
External links
- Trina Jackson – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com
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- Pages using infobox swimmer with national team parameter
- 1977 births
- Living people
- American female freestyle swimmers
- Arizona Wildcats women's swimmers
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- Sportspeople from Jacksonville, Florida
- Swimmers at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics