Marybeth Linzmeier Dorst (born July 24, 1963), née Marybeth Linzmeier, is an American former competition

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who represented the United States at the

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and the

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in the early 1980s.

Early life

Linzmeier was a star swimmer at

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and qualified for the

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in Moscow in several swimming events. Due to the United States-led boycott of the Moscow Olympics in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, however, she did not participate in the Olympics.

Collegiate career

Linzmeier attended

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, where she won eight individual NCAA titles competing for the

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swimming and diving team. She was later named to the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame. Linzmeier missed qualifying for the 1984 U.S. Olympics team by three one-hundredths (0.03) of a second.

After swimming

Linzmeier Dorst is a

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in the

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. She and her husband, Christopher Dorst, a silver medalist as a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic water polo team, have three daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Linzmeier, Marybeth 1963 births Living people American female freestyle swimmers Sportspeople from Mission Viejo, California Stanford Cardinal women's swimmers Swimmers at the 1983 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in swimming Summer World University Games medalists in swimming FISU World University Games silver medalists for the United States Medalists at the 1983 Summer Universiade 20th-century American sportswomen

Early life

Collegiate career

After swimming

See also

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