Angelina L. Myers-Sims better known as Angel Martino (born April 25, 1967 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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) is a former American

United States

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 swimmer

Swimming (sport)

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. She swam in college at Furman University. Over her career, she won three relay Olympic

Olympic Games

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 gold medal

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s and three Olympic bronze medals.

In addition to her Olympic medals, she won twelve Pan Pacific

Pan Pacific Swimming Championships

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 medals, seven Goodwill Games

Goodwill Games

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 gold medals. She was a captain of the 1996 U.S. Women's Olympic Swimming team. Many people feel that this sent the wrong signals to US athletes given her 1988 suspension for testing positive for nandralone.

Martino is currently the assistant coach of the Baldwin Aqua Dragons swim team in Milledgeville, Georgia

Milledgeville, Georgia

Milledgeville is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is northeast of Macon, located just before Eatonton on the way to Athens along U.S. Highway 441, and it is located on the Oconee River. The relatively rapid current of the Oconee here made this an...

and coaches for the Reynolds Rapids Swim Team in Greensboro, GA and also helps the varsity swim team at Gatewood Schools in Eatonton, GA.

She has two sons Michael Campion aged 13 and Mark aged 9.