Cristina Teuscher is a former freestyle

Freestyle swimming

Freestyle is an unregulated swimming style used in swimming competitions according to the rules of FINA. The front crawl stroke is almost universally used during a freestyle race, as this style is generally the fastest...

 and medley

Medley swimming

Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley or by four swimmers as a medley relay...

 swimmer from the United States

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, who was a member of the Women's Relay Team that won the gold medal in the 4x200m Freestyle a the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

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 in Atlanta, Georgia

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. Her winning teammates were Jenny Thompson

Jenny Thompson

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, Trina Jackson

Trina Jackson

Trina Marie Jackson is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States, who was a member of the Women's Relay Team that won the gold medal in the 4×200 m Freestyle a the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Her winning teammates were Jenny Thompson, Cristina Teuscher, and Sheila...

, and Sheila Taormina

Sheila Taormina

Sheila Taormina is an Olympic athlete from the United States, who has competed at 4 Olympics and was the first woman to qualify for the Olympics in 3 different sports...

. Four years later, while Captain of the U.S. Women's Team, she captured the bronze medal in the 200m Individual Medley, at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

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 in Sydney, Australia.

Teuscher is 2000 graduate of Columbia University

Columbia University

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, where she was an All-American and four-time NCAA champion. She won 12 Ivy League titles, set 17 Lion records, and was named the Honda Award recipient as the 1999-2000 Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.

She later completed her MBA at INSEAD

INSEAD

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in 2007. She is the current women's head coach at Yale. Teuscher is on the board of directors for the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards.