Rebecca Soni

Rebecca Soni

Personal information
Nickname	"Reb"
National team	United States
Born	(1987-03-18) March 18, 1987 (age 37) Freehold Borough, New Jersey, U.S.
Height	5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight	134 lb (61 kg)
Website	RebSoni.com
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Club	Scarlet Aquatics
College team	University of Southern California
Coach	Dave Salo
Medal record Women's swimming Representing  United States Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 3 3 0 World Championships (LC) 4 1 1 World Championships (SC) 3 1 0 Pan Pacific Championships 3 0 0 Universiade 1 2 0 Total 14 7 1 Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 200 m breaststroke 2012 London 200 m breaststroke 2012 London 4×100 m medley 2008 Beijing 100 m breaststroke 2008 Beijing 4×100 m medley 2012 London 100 m breaststroke World Championships (LC) 2009 Rome 100 m breaststroke 2011 Shanghai 100 m breaststroke 2011 Shanghai 200 m breaststroke 2011 Shanghai 4×100 m medley 2009 Rome 50 m breaststroke 2011 Shanghai 50 m breaststroke World Championships (SC) 2010 Dubai 50 m breaststroke 2010 Dubai 100 m breaststroke 2010 Dubai 200 m breaststroke 2010 Dubai 4×100 m medley Pan Pacific Championships 2010 Irvine 100 m breaststroke 2010 Irvine 200 m breaststroke 2010 Irvine 4×100 m medley Universiade 2005 Izmir 4×100 m medley 2005 Izmir 100 m breaststroke 2005 Izmir 200 m breaststroke

Rebecca Soni (born March 18, 1987) is an American former competition swimmer and breaststroke specialist who is a six-time Olympic medalist. She is a former world record-holder in the 100-meter breaststroke (short and long course) and the 200-meter breaststroke (short and long course), and is the first woman to swim the 200-meter breaststroke in under 2 minutes 20 seconds. As a member of the U.S. national team, she held the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay from 2012 to 2017 (long course).

Soni has won a total of twenty-two medals in major international competition, fourteen gold, seven silver, and one bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, the Universiade, and the Pan Pacific Championships. She burst onto the international scene at the 2008 Summer Olympics where she won two silver medals and one gold. In the 200-meter breaststroke at the Olympics, she set the world record en route to winning gold, shocking Australian favorite Leisel Jones.^[1] Four years later at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Soni successfully defended her Olympic title in the 200-meter breaststroke in world record time, becoming the first woman to do so in the event.

She was named Swimming World's World Swimmer of the Year award in 2010 and 2011, and the American Swimmer of the Year award in 2009, 2010 and 2011.