Diana Marie Munz (born June 19, 1982), later known by her married name Diana DePetro, is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic champion from Moreland Hills, Ohio.
Prior to her gold medal performance in the 2000 Olympics, she was injured in a car accident in 1999 that caused some pain and minor damage to her back which included compressed vertebrae. She had pain at times after completing long training afterwards. During 2003, she took courses at John Carroll University but did not swim for the school.[3]
2000, 2004 Olympics
She represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where she won a gold medal in the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay and a silver medal in 400-meter freestyle. Four years later at the 2004 Athens Olympics she added a bronze medal in the 800-meter freestyle to her Olympic medal collection.[4]
Pan Pacifics
One of her greatest performances in an international meet was at the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships. She captured an impressive four freestyle gold medals, in the 400, 800, and 1,500, and also swam on the gold medal team for the 4x200 free relay.[2] Earlier in the 1997 Pan Pacifics she took a bronze medals in the 400, and 800-freestyles, and a silver in the 1500-meter freestyle.[2]
Over her career, she garnered six medals at the World Championships in 1998, 2001, and 2003, consisting of a gold in the 2003 4x200 free relay, and silvers in the 800 freestyle in 1998, 2001, and 2003. She also took bronze medals in the 1500-meter freestyle in 2001, and the 400-meter freestyle in 2003.[2]
As of September 2011, Munz was the Director of Swimming at the SPIRE Institute, an athletic facility in Geneva, Ohio.[2]
