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Kaitlin Sandeno
Kaitlin Sandeno (born March 13, 1983 in Mission Viejo, California) is an American swimmer, and was part of the team that set the world record in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Sandeno won the bronze medal in the 800m freestyle event, along with 4th place in the 400m individual medley (IM) and 6th place in the 200m butterfly. In 2003, while enrolled at the University of Southern California, she won the US national championship in the 200m butterfly, 200m IM, and 400m IM events.
The 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece saw Sandeno win three more Olympic medals: a silver medal in the 400m IM, a bronze medal in the 400m freestyle, and a gold medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay. The American team of Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper , Dana Vollmer, and Sandeno also broke the seventeen-year-old world record by more than two seconds with their victory in the 4x200m freestyle relay.
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