Megan Jendrick
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| Olympic medalist | |||
 Megan Jendrick |
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| Medal record | |||
Competitor for  United States |
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| Women's swimming | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 2000 Sydney[1] | 100 m breaststroke | |
| Gold | 2000 Sydney | 4x100 m medley | |
| World Championships - Long Course | |||
| Silver | 2007 Melbourne[2] | 200 m breaststroke | |
| Silver | 2001 Fukuoka | 4x100 m medley | |
| Summer Universiade | |||
| Gold | 2005 Izmir | 50 m breaststroke | |
| Gold | 2005 Izmir | 100 m breaststroke | |
| Gold | 2005 Izmir | 4x100 m medley | |
Megan Jendrick (born Megan Quann on January 15, 1984 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American swimmer. She won two gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Jendrick has set 26 American records and one World record in her swimming career up to date. She is a ten-time National champion and ten-time US Open champion.
In 2000, after being the youngest medalist on the US Olympic swim team with gold in the 100-meter breaststroke and 400 medley relay, Megan was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine, becoming one of few women to hold that honor.
Jendrick was the star of the 2005 World University Games in İzmir, Turkey, winning three gold medals and setting two Universiade records. She was the second woman to ever swim the 100 yard breaststroke under 1:00 and is also only the second woman (there have only been three now, including herself) in history to swim 100-yards breaststroke in under 59 seconds (58.87)
She graduated from Emerald Ridge High School in Puyallup, Washington. In December 2004, Megan married her high-school sweetheart, American author Nathan Jendrick.
Jendrick is still often listed as Quann or Quann-Jendrick but she has said that her legal and professional name is Megan Jendrick only, and that the hyphenated version is not correct.
Jendrick is the 2006 recipient of the Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete Award, and was nominated that same year for a Golden Goggle Award, the highest honor outside of swimming an American aquatic athlete may receive. From the Iba, Jendrick donated $10,000 to Children's Hospital in Seattle.
In 2007, Jendrick won the silver medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 12th FINA World Championships
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- ^ ESPN Sydney Swimming. Retrieved on 2007-07-22.
- ^ 12th FINA World Championships. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
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