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{{Short description|American swimmer (born 1985)}}
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| full_name      = Christine Marie Magnuson 
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| national_team  = {{USA}}
| birth_date     = {{Birth date and age|1985|10|17|mf=y}}
| birth_place    = [[Palos Heights, Illinois]], U.S.
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| height         = 6 ft 1 in
| weight         = 161 lb
| strokes        = [[Butterfly stroke|Butterfly]], [[freestyle swimming|freestyle]]
| club           = Tucson Ford Dealers Aquatics
| collegeteam    = [[Tennessee Volunteers swimming and diving|University of Tennessee]]
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{{MedalSport | Women's swimming}}
{{MedalCountry | the United States}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Swimming at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]]|[[Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly|100 m butterfly]]}}
{{MedalSilver | 2008 Beijing | [[Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay|4×100 m medley]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FINA World Championships|World Championships (LC)]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships|2011 Shanghai]] | [[Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay|4×100 m medley]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FINA World Championships - Short Course|World Championships (SC)]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[2010 FINA Short Course World Championships|2010 Dubai]] | [[2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay|4×100 m medley]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)|2012 Istanbul]] | [[2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay|4×100 m medley]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Pan Pacific Swimming Championships|Pan Pacific Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships|2010 Irvine]] | 100 m butterfly}}
{{MedalBronze | 2010 Irvine | 50 m butterfly}}
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'''Christine Marie Magnuson''' (born October 17, 1985) is an American competition [[swimming (sport)|swimmer]] and two-time Olympic medalist.  She has won a total of five medals in major international competition, four silvers, and one bronze spanning the Olympics, the [[FINA World Aquatics Championships|World Championships]], and the [[Pan Pacific Swimming Championships|Pan Pacific Championships]].

Magnuson was born in [[Palos Heights, Illinois]] on October 17, 1985, and graduated from [[Victor J. Andrew High School]] in [[Tinley Park, Illinois]].<ref name=Olympedia>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/112260&lang=en|title=Olympedia Biography, Christine Magnuson|website=olympedia.org|access-date=17 December 2024}}</ref>  

==University swimming career==
===University of Tennessee===
She received an athletic scholarship to attend the [[University of Tennessee]], where she swam for the [[Tennessee Volunteers swimming and diving]] team in [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC) competition from 2005 to 2008.  At the 2008 NCAA Championships, Magnuson won an individual national championship in the 100-yard butterfly.  She finished her college career with 23 [[All-American]] honors, three school records and five SEC individual championships.   She was the 2008 SEC Swimmer of the Year and the 2008 SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year. She was also awarded the 2008 SEC Commissioners Trophy as the SEC Championship meet high point-scorer. She was a four-time SEC Champion in three events, the 50 free, 100 free, and 100 fly during her time at Tennessee.<ref name=UTHOF>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ghjUumIIhQ|title=Youtube, Christine Magnuson, University of Tennessee Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech|website=www.youtube.com|access-date=17 December 2024}}</ref>

==International swimming career==

===2008 Summer Olympics===
{{see also|Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics}}

Magnuson won the silver medal in the 100-meter butterfly final, finishing behind [[Libby Trickett]] of [[Australia]] who had won the gold medal in an [[Oceania|Oceanic]] record.<ref>[http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/sports_globetrotting/2008/08/magnuson-wins-s.html Magnuson wins silver in 100 butterfly]</ref>  She also set an American record in that event during the semifinals.  Magnuson earned her second medal, also a silver, in the 4×100-meter medley relay finishing behind team Australia.<ref>{{cite news|title=Plainsboro's Soni wins third medal, takes silver in 4×100 medley relay|url=http://www.nj.com/olympics/index.ssf/2008/08/plainsboros_soni_wins_third_me.html|publisher=[[The Star-Ledger]]|author=M.A. Mehta|date=August 17, 2008|access-date=June 27, 2009}}</ref><ref name="SR">{{cite Sports-Reference}}</ref>

===2009 World Championships===
{{see also|Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships}}

Magnuson advanced to the 100-meter butterfly semifinals and finished tenth overall.  Magnuson also swam the third leg in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay but the United States finished fourth in the final.

==See also==
* [[List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)]]
* [[List of University of Tennessee people]]
* [[List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{World Aquatics}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|org_archive=20210411020931}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{USA Swimming|new_id=christine-magnuson|archive=20210602215631}}
* {{USOPC|new_id=christine-magnuson|old_id=MA/Christine-Magnuson|archive=20220815033911}}
* {{web archive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717033346/http://www.utladyvols.com/sports/w-swim/mtt/magnuson_christine00.html |title=Christine Magnuson at the University of Tennessee |date=mdy}}

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[[Category:1985 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:American female butterfly swimmers]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:Tennessee Volunteers women's swimmers]]
[[Category:University of Tennessee alumni]]
[[Category:People from Tinley Park, Illinois]]
[[Category:21st-century American sportswomen]]


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