Mary Elizabeth Hill is a female 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...

 swimmer from the United States

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, who won the gold medal in the women's 400m freestyle event at the 2003 Pan American Games

2003 Pan American Games

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A native of Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

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 she also won gold in the 800m free relay at the 2005 Summer Universiade

2005 Summer Universiade

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, and finished fifth in the 200m free and seventh in the 200m butterfly. In 2005 Hill also took seventh in the 200m fly and eighth in the 200m free at USA World Championship Trials.