Dana Vollmer

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Medal record
Dana Vollmer
Women’s Swimming
Competitor for United States
Olympic Games
Gold	2004 Athens^[1]	4x200m Freestyle
World Championships - Long Course
Gold	2007 Melbourne^[2]	4x200m Freestyle
Silver	2007 Melbourne	4x100m Freestyle
Silver	2007 Melbourne	4x100m Medley
World Championships - Short Course
Bronze	2004 Indianapolis^[3]	200m Freestyle
Gold	2004 Indianapolis	4x100m Freestyle
Gold	2004 Indianapolis	4x200m Freestyle
Pan American Games
Gold	2003 Santo Domingo^[4]	200m Freestyle
Gold	2003 Santo Domingo	4x200m Freestyle
Gold	2003 Santo Domingo	4x100m Medley
Summer Universiade
Gold	2005 Izmir	4x100m Freestyle
Silver	2005 Izmir	50m Butterfly

Dana Vollmer (born November 13, 1987 in Syracuse, New York) is an American swimmer who presently competes at the college level at Cal-Berkeley. She had previously swam for the University of Florida.[1]

Though born in New York, she was raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex suburb of Granbury, Texas.

She was a member of the United States' 4 x 200-Meter Freestyle Relay team, along with Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, and Kaitlin Sandeno, that won the Gold Medal and broke the 17-year-old world record at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. At both the trials for the 2000 Summer Olympics (she didn't make the team), and the 2001 Goodwill Games, Vollmer was the youngest competitor there at the ages of 12 and 13, respectively. Young Dana suffers from a heart condition, the second one she's going through (she already had surgery to repair the first one in 2003). An EKG found Long QT though she is not diagnosed with Long QT Syndrome. Vollmer's heart diagnosis demands a nearby AED (defibrillator) as a precautionary measure. The 2003 surgery corrected a separate condition known as SVT (Supra Ventricular Tachyardia), a condition that produces a quickened pulse rate of about 240 beats per minute.