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Jessica Adele Hardy Meichtry (born March 12, 1987) is an American competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke and freestyle events. Hardy earned a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle and a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relays at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
She has won a total of twenty-eight medals in major international competition, fourteen gold, nine silver, and five bronze spanning the Olympics, World and the Pan Pacific Championships.
From 2008 to 2009, Hardy served a 12 month suspension from swimming competition due to an anti-doping rule violation at the 2008 Olympic Trials. She returned to competition in 2009, setting new long course world records in the 50-meter breaststroke and 100-meter breaststroke at the 2009 U.S. Open Swimming Championships.
Hardy was born in Orange, California, on March 12, 1987, the daughter of George Hardy and Denise Robinson. Her mother swam in college for Indiana State University for one week and is currently a psychotherapist. Jessica is a 2005 graduate of Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach and was Swimming World's Female High School Swimmer of the Year in 2004 and 2005. In High School she participated in several sports. Hardy swam for the Seal Beach Swim Club, but at 16 transferred to the larger and more competitive Irvine Novaquatics program in April 2003, where she was managed and trained by Hall of Fame Head Coach Dave Salo. She remained with the Novaquatics through her high school years.
Representing Wilson Classical High at the Southern Section Division I Championships, in May of 2005, Hardy became the first High School student to go under the minute for the 100-yard breaststroke event with a time of 59.20. At Wilson, she swam for Coach Maggie Twinem. Twinem coached the girls swimming team at Wilson Classical High's strong program for 29 years, leading the program to two CIF Southern Section team championships, which included Jessica's 2005 championship. Wilson High's women's team also won consecutive Moore League titles under Coach Twinem from 2001-2005, during Hardy's tenure as a member of the team.
Hardy held a fourth place world ranking in the 100-meter breaststroke event in 2005. Swimming for Wilson High School in 2005, she swam the breaststroke leg of a 200-meter medley relay that won the CIF Division I title with a time of 1:43.84. At the same CIF championship, Hardy also won the 200-meter individual medley with a time of 2:01.68, and swam last as part of a 4x100 freestyle relay team that placed second at the championship with a 3:32.39. Her efforts at the championship helped her Wilson Classical swim team win the CIF team championship for Division I for the first time since 1995.
Hardy attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she competed for coach Teri McKeever's California Golden Bears swim team for two years. She was a four-time NCAA Champion, and met her husband Dominik Meichtry, a Swiss swimmer and 3-time Olympian, at Berkeley. She gave up her eligibility and turned professional in 2007, to train with the Trojan Swim Club part of the University of Southern California (USC) with Trojan Club coach Dave Salo, her former High School coach at the Novaquatics. Salo started as a USC and Trojan Swim Club Coach in 2006. In 2016, she announced that she would now be training with former University of Southern California Women's swim coach Mark Schubert, at the Golden West Swim Club in Huntington Beach, CA. Schubert received International Swimming Hall of Fame Honors in 1997.
She married Dominik Meichtry on October 5, 2013. In September 2017, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child, to be born in the spring of 2018, and the couple later had a second child.
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Jessica Hardy
Jessica Adele Hardy Meichtry (born March 12, 1987) is an American competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke and freestyle events. Hardy earned a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle and a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relays at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
She has won a total of twenty-eight medals in major international competition, fourteen gold, nine silver, and five bronze spanning the Olympics, World and the Pan Pacific Championships.
From 2008 to 2009, Hardy served a 12 month suspension from swimming competition due to an anti-doping rule violation at the 2008 Olympic Trials. She returned to competition in 2009, setting new long course world records in the 50-meter breaststroke and 100-meter breaststroke at the 2009 U.S. Open Swimming Championships.
Hardy was born in Orange, California, on March 12, 1987, the daughter of George Hardy and Denise Robinson. Her mother swam in college for Indiana State University for one week and is currently a psychotherapist. Jessica is a 2005 graduate of Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach and was Swimming World's Female High School Swimmer of the Year in 2004 and 2005. In High School she participated in several sports. Hardy swam for the Seal Beach Swim Club, but at 16 transferred to the larger and more competitive Irvine Novaquatics program in April 2003, where she was managed and trained by Hall of Fame Head Coach Dave Salo. She remained with the Novaquatics through her high school years.
Representing Wilson Classical High at the Southern Section Division I Championships, in May of 2005, Hardy became the first High School student to go under the minute for the 100-yard breaststroke event with a time of 59.20. At Wilson, she swam for Coach Maggie Twinem. Twinem coached the girls swimming team at Wilson Classical High's strong program for 29 years, leading the program to two CIF Southern Section team championships, which included Jessica's 2005 championship. Wilson High's women's team also won consecutive Moore League titles under Coach Twinem from 2001-2005, during Hardy's tenure as a member of the team.
Hardy held a fourth place world ranking in the 100-meter breaststroke event in 2005. Swimming for Wilson High School in 2005, she swam the breaststroke leg of a 200-meter medley relay that won the CIF Division I title with a time of 1:43.84. At the same CIF championship, Hardy also won the 200-meter individual medley with a time of 2:01.68, and swam last as part of a 4x100 freestyle relay team that placed second at the championship with a 3:32.39. Her efforts at the championship helped her Wilson Classical swim team win the CIF team championship for Division I for the first time since 1995.
Hardy attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she competed for coach Teri McKeever's California Golden Bears swim team for two years. She was a four-time NCAA Champion, and met her husband Dominik Meichtry, a Swiss swimmer and 3-time Olympian, at Berkeley. She gave up her eligibility and turned professional in 2007, to train with the Trojan Swim Club part of the University of Southern California (USC) with Trojan Club coach Dave Salo, her former High School coach at the Novaquatics. Salo started as a USC and Trojan Swim Club Coach in 2006. In 2016, she announced that she would now be training with former University of Southern California Women's swim coach Mark Schubert, at the Golden West Swim Club in Huntington Beach, CA. Schubert received International Swimming Hall of Fame Honors in 1997.
She married Dominik Meichtry on October 5, 2013. In September 2017, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child, to be born in the spring of 2018, and the couple later had a second child.
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