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Cristina Teuscher
Personal information
Full name	Cristina Teuscher
National team	United States
Born	March 12, 1978 (age 46); Bronx, New York
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	150 lb (68 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, individual medley
Club	Badger Swim Club
College team	Columbia University
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
World Championships (LC)
Pan Pacific Championships
Pan American Games

Cristina Teuscher (born March 12, 1978) is an American former freestyle and medley swimmer who was a member of the U.S. women's relay team that won the gold medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Her winning teammates were Jenny Thompson, Trina Jackson and Sheila Taormina. Four years later, while captain of the U.S. women's team, she captured the bronze medal in the 200-meter individual medley at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Teuscher is a 1996 graduate of New Rochelle High School and a 2000 graduate of Columbia University, where she was an All-American and four-time NCAA champion for the Columbia Lions swimming and diving team. She won 12 Ivy League titles, set 17 team records, and received the 1997–98 Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year.^[1]^[2]

She later completed her MBA at INSEAD in 2007. She followed Yale legend Frank Keefe as head coach of Yale Women's Swimming from 2010 to 2012. During her short tenure as head coach, the Bulldogs finished fifth and third in the Ivy League, respectively. Teuscher is on the board of directors for the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards.^[3]

References

^ Collegiate Women Sports Awards, Past Honda Sports Award Winners for Swimming & Diving. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
^ "Columbia's All America Swimmer Cristina Teuscher Wins Honda Award". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
^ "Yale Women's Swimming and Diving Website". Archived from the original on July 29, 2019. Retrieved July 31, 2011.

External links

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Cristina Teuscher". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020.