Annette Salmeen

Annette Salmeen

Personal information
Full name	Annette Elizabeth Salmeen
National team	United States
Born	(1974-12-07) December 7, 1974 (age 50) Ann Arbor, Michigan
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly, freestyle
College team	University of California, Los Angeles
Medal record Women's swimming Representing the   United States Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta 4×200 m freestyle Universiade 1995 Fukuoka 200 m butterfly

Annette Elizabeth Salmeen (born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on December 7, 1974) ^[1] is an American biochemist, a 1997 Rhodes Scholar ^[2] and became a gold medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics. ^[3]

Swimming career

She was a competitive swimmer by the age of 9, and became a standout swimmer at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, where she was co-captain of the girls' swimming team for two years. ^[4] While at Huron, Salmeen was three-time state champion in the 500-yard freestyle, and once in the 100-yard butterfly. ^[4] Salmeen went on to swim at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she was a co-captain, four-time All-American, and an NCAA national champion in the 200-yard butterfly. ^[5] She won a bronze medal in the 200-meter butterfly ^[6] at the 1995 World University Games in Fukuoka, Japan. ^[3] Salmeen qualified for the U.S. Olympic Team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where she earned a gold medal for swimming for the U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. ^[3] In individual competition at the Olympics, she finished 4th in the B Final (12th overall) in the women's 200-meter butterfly. ^[7]

Rhodes Scholarship

Salmeen graduated from UCLA in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue a Doctorate of Philosophy (D. Phil.) in biochemistry at Oxford University. ^[8] During her four years at St John's College, Oxford, ^[9] she was a member of the Oxford University Swimming Club, where she set three long-course records and six on the short-course. ^[5]

Stanford University

She earned her doctorate in 2001, ^[8] and returned to the U.S. as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. ^[10] In 2005, she was named to the board of the United States Anti-Doping Agency and again came back to Stanford University in 2022 where she teaches and is a course coordinator in the Human Biology programme. ^[11] She also teaches Health, Biology and Big Data at Stanford University. ^[12]

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2. Foster, Chris (April 26, 2008). "He takes Rhodes detour". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
3. "Annette Salmeen". Daily Bruin. June 9, 1997. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved December 25, 2009.
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6. Summer Universiade Results Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved December 18, 2009.
7. "Annette Salmeen to be Inducted into UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame - UCLA Official Athletic Site". Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved 2009-12-18. UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame
8. "Annette Salmeen to be Inducted into UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on August 13, 2011. Retrieved 2014-07-07. UCLA Chemistry Department profile
9. "Oxonian Olympians". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on September 20, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
10. UCLA Grad Salmeen Selected for USADA Board, March 8, 2005
11. Annette Salmeen, Stanford University 2014-2015"
12. "Annette Salmeen". St John's College. Retrieved April 4, 2025.

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
• List of University of California, Los Angeles people