Tiffany Cohen

Tiffany Lisa Cohen (born June 11, 1966) is an American former swimmer who was a double gold medalist at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle. She began swimming around the age of eight with California's Culver City Swim Team coached by Bruce Kocsis.

1982 National and World Championships On April 10, 1982, in only her second year of international competition, while swimming with the Nadadores, she won the U.S. National Championship at Gainesville, Florida, in the 500-, 1,000-, and 1650-yard freestyle. (Her 1650-yard time - 15:58.52).

In 1982 in early August, she finished third, taking a bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle at the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Her 400-meter time - 4:11:85.4)

1983 Pan American games In August 1983, she was a gold medalist in both the 400 and 800-meter freestyle events at the Pan American games in Caracas. With her help, Texas won the NCAA Swimming Championships in all four years she attended. The wins gave her a career total of 16 U.S. National titles.

Her first win of the 1986 National Long Course Championship on August 4, 1986, was in the 800 meter swim, where she clocked a time of 8:36.72. It was the eighth fastest time in the world that year, but was twelve seconds behind the world record time of Tracey Wickham. Cohen was still a top College and National competitor, but was slipping from the World Record times more common to Olympic medal winners. Though she had made a remarkable showing at the U.S. Nationals, she had failed to make the American Team soon to compete in the World Swimming Championships that year. Late in her swimming career, she moved her club membership to the Irvine Novas under Flip Darr around 1987, who trained her for the Pan Pacific Championships that summer. After retirement, she lectured and wrote to educate the public about the eating disorder bulimia, from which she had struggled at times during her swimming career.

Later life After her retirement from swimming, and her 1988 graduation from the University of Texas with a degree in journalism,