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Lia Neal

Olympian 2012, 2016

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GOLD

1
SILVER

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BRONZE

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Lights, Camera, Action: Olympian Erica Sullivan Talks About College Swimming, Paris 2024 & A Career In Film
The last time Erica Sullivan swam on the world stage, she won an Olympic silver medal in the inaugural women’s 1,500-meter freestyle at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Her teammate, Katie Ledecky, won the historic race and could have easily overshadowed ...
Oct 25, 2023
The Beat Goes On: Olympic Silver Medalist Jay Litherland Talks Swimming & Making Music
Ask Jay Litherland for his lucky number, and he might say 3. The 28-year-old Olympic silver medalist is one of triplets and has citizenship in three countries. His dad, Andrew Litherland, is from New Zealand; mom Chizuko is from Japan, where the triple...
Oct 24, 2023

Athlete Bio

Height

5'10"

Hometown

Brooklyn, NY

Education

Covenant of the Sacred Heart (Manhattan, N.Y.) ‘13 Stanford University ‘17, Science, Technology and Society

Personal

Daughter of Siu and Rome Neal... Has three siblings: Rome, Smile and Treasure...Father, Rome, is an avid athlete, competing in multiple New York City Marathons...Enjoys, eating, cooking, watching movies, hanging out with friends, curating music playlists and discovering new restaurants and shops…Speaks fluent Cantonese and Mandarin.

Olympic Experience

Rio 2016 Olympic Games, silver (4x100m free)
London 2012 Olympic Games, bronze (4x100m free)

World Championship Experience

Most recent: 2018 – gold (400-meter freestyle relay, 400 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay), silver (800 freestyle relay), 7th (100 freestyle)
Years of Participation: Long Course – 2015, 2017; Short Course – 2018
Medals: 6 (4 golds, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
Gold – 2018 (400 freestyle relay, 400 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay), 2017 (400 freestyle relay)
Silver – 2018 (800 freestyle relay)
Bronze – 2015 (400 freestyle relay)

Personal Website
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