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My Take
Janet Evans is my favorite kind of athlete: small in frame, immense in will. Distance freestyle is brutal, solitary, unglamorous work, and she dominated it, scooping four Olympic golds across 1988 and 1992 and holding world records that stood for ages. What stays with me is the sheer endurance packed into that slight body, the refusal to fade in the back half of a race. Swimming for USC and later enshrined in the Hall of Fame, she never drifted from the sport even in retirement. I admire competitors who simply outlast everyone, and she defined that.
Overview
Janet Beth Evans (born August 28, 1971) is an American former competition swimmer who swam from 1989 to 1992 for Stanford University and specialized in distance freestyle events. Evans was a world champion and world record-holder, and won a total of four gold medals in the 400 and 800-meter freestyle events at the 1988 and the 1992 Olympics.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Janet Evans
- Name (Japanese)
- ジャネット・エバンス
- Reading
- じゃねっと・えばんす
- Born
- August 28, 1971 (age 54)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Boar
- Origin
- Fullerton, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 2 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- swimmer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- El Dorado High School
- University
- University of Southern California
Awards & achievements
- International Swimming Hall of Fame
- 1990 Honda Sports Award for Swimming & Diving
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.