Jeremy Linn

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Men's Swimming
Olympic medal record
Silver	Atlanta 1996	100m Breaststroke
Gold	Atlanta 1996	4x100m Medley Relay

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Jeremy Linn (born January 6 1976 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), set an American record in the one hundred meter breaststroke category while winning the silver medal in that event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

In Atlanta, Mark Henderson, Gary Hall Jr., Jeff Rouse, and Jeremy Linn set the world record in the four hundred meter medley relay. Linn is known for his unusual warm-up routine.

Linn attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from 1995-1998 where he was a fourteen-time NCAA All-American in swimming.^{[citation needed]} Linn won eleven SEC swimming titles-six individual and five relay. He also helped the Tennessee Volunteers win an SEC team championship in 1996. At the National level, he won four individual NCAA titles. Linn Held the NCAA and US Open record in the 100 yard breaststroke until 2007, that record was broken by Mike Alexandrov of Northwestern University.

Linn was the Senior Coach at the QDD Swim Team in Manassas, Virginia from September 2004 until August of 2007. Jeremy coached 3 swimmers to National Championship qualifying times and he also coached 3 of the 4 QDD women in the 200 Free Relay to the VSI State Senior Championships for short course in 2007, breaking the meet record and nearly breaking the five year old state record [1]. Linn coached 11 QDD athletes whom achieved USA Swimming's Scholastic All American status for the 2006-2007 school year, Linn coached for Tar Heel Aquatic Team, in Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina from August 2007 to December 2007. He now coaches for Patriot Swim Club^[1] in Manassas, Va.