Mary T. Meagher

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mary T. Meagher
Occupation	Swimmer
Date Of Birth	Oct 27, 1964(1964-10-27)
Age	60
Birthplace	Louisville
Country	United States
Birth City	Kentucky
Horoscope	Libra

Mary T. Meagher Biography

Mary T. Meagher is one of the most popular and richest Swimmer who was born on October 27, 1964 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Mary Terstegge Meagher Plant (born on 27 October 1964) is an American former competitive swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record holder. In 1981, she beat her previous world records for the 100-meter butterfly (57.93) and the 200-meter butterfly (2:05.96). These records would be the world records for the 18 and 19 years old, and are thought as among the best athletic performances of all time.

In the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, Meagher won gold medals in the 200-meter and 100-meter butterfly races. She also won another gold for swimming in the butterfly portion of the women’s 4×100-meter relay in the team that won the U.S. team in the final of the event. In the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, Meagher was awarded bronze medals for the 200-meter butterfly. When she quit swimming competitively, Meagher had won 24 U.S. national swimming titles.

Meagher was the 10th of 11 siblings. She married former speed skater Mike Plant. They now live in Peachtree City, Georgia, with their two children, Maddie and Drew. Mike Plant’s brother and Meagher’s brother-in-law, Tom Plant, was also a speed skater and Olympian. Meagher’s older sister Anne Meagher Northup served as a US Congresswoman.

In 1981, however, Meagher delivered an unforgettable performance of competitive swimming during the U.S. Swimming National Championships held in Brown Deer, Wisconsin in 1981. The meet saw Meagher broke world records for both the 100-meter and 200-meter butterfly, two of the primary distances that the butterfly race is conducted in competition swimming. Both records were thought to be awe-inspiring and particularly that record time that was set at 57.93 seconds Meagher set in the 100-meters, a reduction of nearly 1 second. Both times were the world records for almost two decades. American swimming sensation Jenny Thompson lowered the 100-meter record in 1999, and Susie O’Neill of Australia set the record for the 200-meter in the year following. There are those who believe That Meagher’s butterfly records were some of the best records in the history of sport or swimming, being among the most notable records as Bob’s long jump record for the world in 1968. These two swims lead Meagher to be named the Female world champion in the year 1985 by Swimming World Magazine, which she won again in 1985.

Mary T. Meagher Net Worth

Mary T. Meagher is one of the richest Swimmer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mary T. Meagher 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Meagher’s mother is the two-time Notre Dame basketball letterman James L. Meagher. She was an athlete of high level at an early age. In 1979, at the Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she made her first world record — at the age of 14 in the 200m butterfly. “When she was a teenager, Mary showed no weaknesses,” said Dennis Pursley, one of her coaches at the beginning. “Every athlete I’ve ever known had some form of weakness, be it in terms of motivation, technique or physical attributes, but Mary was the exception.” She graduated from Sacred Heart Academy high school in Louisville, Kentucky, alongside her sister, who would later become U.S. Representative Anne Northup.

Meagher was supposed to be a medal winner in her participation in the Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Russia. But, Meagher, along with the other members from the United States Olympic team, did not get her chance due to the American boycott from the Moscow Olympics.

Meagher attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she swam for the California Golden Bears swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Pacific-10 Conference competition. She received the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving twice, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year in 1984–85 and again in 1986–87. In 1987, she also won the Honda Broderick Cup as the nation’s top female collegiate athlete. She graduated from the University of California in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social sciences.

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