Jessica Hardy

Jessica Hardy
Personal information
Full name	Jessica Adele Hardy Meichtry
National team	United States
Born	March 12, 1987; Orange, California, U.S.
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Spouse	Dominik Meichtry
Children	2
Website	JessicaHardy.net
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	breaststroke, freestyle
Club	Irvine Novaquatics; Golden West Swim Club; Trojan Swim Club (TSC)
College team	University of California at Berkeley
Coach	Dave Salo (Novaquatics, Trojan SC); Teri McKeever (U. Cal Berkeley); Mark Schubert (Golden West)
Medal record
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
World Championships (LC)
World Championships (SC)
Pan Pacific Championships

Jessica Adele Hardy Meichtry (born March 12, 1987) is an American competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke and freestyle events. Hardy earned a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle and a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relays at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

She has won a total of twenty-eight medals in major international competition, fourteen gold, nine silver, and five bronze spanning the Olympics, World and the Pan Pacific Championships.

From 2008 to 2009, Hardy served a 12 month suspension from swimming competition due to an anti-doping rule violation at the 2008 Olympic Trials. She returned to competition in 2009, setting new long course world records in the 50-meter breaststroke and 100-meter breaststroke at the 2009 U.S. Open Swimming Championships.