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Hayley Peirsol

Personal information
Full name	Hayley Reide Peirsol
Nationality	United States
Stroke(s)	Freestyle
College team	Auburn University
Date of birth	August 9, 1985 (1985-08-09) (age 24)
Place of birth	Irvine, California
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Medal record World Championships (LC) Silver 2003 Barcelona 1500 m freestyle Bronze 2007 Melbourne[1] 800 m freestyle Pan Pacific Championships Bronze 2002 Yokohama 800 m freestyle Bronze 2006 Victoria 800 m freestyle Silver 2006 Victoria 1500 m freestyle Summer Universiade Gold 2005 Izmir 1500m Freestyle Silver 2005 Izmir 800m Freestyle

Hayley Reide Peirsol (born August 9, 1985 in Irvine, California) is an American long-distance swimmer. She swam under Brent Lorenzen with Irvine Novaquatics prior to attending Auburn University. She has also trained with Club Wolverine at the University of Michigan under Bob Bowman. Hayley was the third woman in history to ever break 16 minutes in the 1500 meter freestyle. However, she has recently retired from swimming and now hopes to compete in the 2012 Olympic Games in the triathlon. Hayley is currently training under former World Champion triathlete Siri Lindley in San Diego and Malibu California for different parts of the year. She recently took second place in May of 2009 in her first ITU race which was in her brother's hometown of Austin, Texas. ^[2].

Her brother, American backstroker Aaron Peirsol, is an Olympic gold medalist.

Best times

• LC 400 m Free - 04:06.31, 2006 ConocoPhillips National Championships, 1 August 2006
• LC 800 m Free - 08:26.45, 2006 ConocoPhillips National Championships, 5 August 2006
• LC 1500 m Free - 15:57.36, 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, 17 August 2006
• LC 400 m Individual Medley - 04:48.30, 2002 ConocoPhillips National Championships, 12 August 2002

External links

• Biography at USA Swimming
• 20 Questions with Hayley Peirsol at USA Swimming
• Biography at Auburn University

References