Dominique Diezi
Dominique Lorraine Diezi is a Swiss former swimmer who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is a two-time Olympian, a 32-time Swiss national champion, a multiple-time record holder in sprint freestyle, and a member of Switzerland's national swimming team. She also earned multiple All-American honors while studying in the United States.
Diezi made her first Swiss team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where she finished thirty-second overall in the 50 m freestyle. She edged out Panama's Eileen Coparropa to lead the third heat by a tenth of a second in 26.57. As a member of the Swiss relay team, she also placed seventeenth in the 4×100 m freestyle, and sixteenth in the 4×200 m freestyle.
Diezi sought her comeback at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens after an 8-year absence. She qualified again for three events by clearing a FINA B-cut of 57.30 from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. In the 100 m freestyle, Diezi topped the third heat with her personal best of 56.67, but shared a twenty-sixth place tie with Slovenia's Sara Isaković from the preliminaries. She also helped out the Swiss team to pull off a fifteenth-place effort each in the 4×100 m freestyle, and in the 4×100 m medley.
Diezi was also a varsity swimmer for the Northwestern Wildcats and an assistant coach SMU Mustangs respectively. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics and international studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and a master's degree in education at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
In 2011, Diezi was named women's assistant coach for the Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team at Yale University.
