The non-profit Jewish-American Hall of Fame has issued a limited number of large 2-inch, 3-ounce high relief art medals honoring Olympic multi-medal winner, swimmer Dara Torres.
Torres competed in five Olympic Games, winning 12 medals. In her first Olympics, in 1984, she won a gold medal for the 100-meter relay. She went on to compete in the 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008 Olympics, winning five medals in 2000, more than anyone else on her team. In 2008, the oldest-ever Olympic swimmer at age 41 (having given birth only a year earlier), won two silver medals for 100-meter medley relay and 50–meter freestyle, breaking the American freestyle record she had set at age 15.
Over the course of her career, Dara won four gold, silver, and bronze medals at the Olympics…
