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Jessica Hardy

1987 - Today

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Jessica Adele Hardy Meichtry (born March 12, 1987) is an American competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke and freestyle events. Hardy earned a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle and a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relays at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She has won a total of twenty-eight medals in major international competition, fourteen gold, nine silver, and five bronze spanning the Olympics, World and the Pan Pacific Championships. From 2008 to 2009, Hardy served a 12 month suspension from swimming competition due to an anti-doping rule violation at the 2008 Olympic Trials. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jessica Hardy is the 382nd most popular swimmer (up from 453rd in 2019), the 17,767th most popular biography from United States (up from 18,436th in 2019) and the 131st most popular American Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Jessica Hardy ranks 382 out of 709. Before her are Steve Lundquist, Maarten van der Weijden, Bruno Fratus, Ian Crocker, Lotte Friis, and Yannick Agnel. After her are Arkady Vyatchanin, Ye Shiwen, Dániel Gyurta, Svetlana Romashina, Anastasiya Yermakova, and Pan Zhanle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1987, Jessica Hardy ranks 839. Before her are Lamine Sané, Édgar Benítez, Armando Cooper, Dotter, Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, and Bessam. After her are Mohammad Ahsan, Mariya Ryemyen, Sevgil Musayeva, Filip Filipović, Asami Konno, and Alexander Søderlund.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jessica Hardy ranks 17,775 out of 20,380. Before her are Misty May-Treanor (1977), Danny Pudi (1979), Riley Voelkel (1990), Jackie Walorski (1963), Charles Michael Davis (1984), and Martin Heinrich (1971). After her are Scott Raynor (1978), Gyasi Zardes (1991), Ed Perlmutter (1953), Chanel Iman (1990), J. G. Quintel (1982), and Joel Courtney (1996).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Jessica Hardy ranks 131. Before her are David Berkoff (1966), Maya DiRado (1993), Rowdy Gaines (1959), Brendan Hansen (1981), Steve Lundquist (1961), and Ian Crocker (1982). After her are Jeff Rouse (1970), Amy Van Dyken (1973), Theresa Andrews (1962), Kelsi Dahlia (1994), Jenna Johnson (1967), and Tom Malchow (1976).

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