﻿{"id":622900,"date":"2025-09-21T19:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=622900"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:34:07","slug":"three-time-olympic-medalist-erika-connolly-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/three-time-olympic-medalist-erika-connolly-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Time Olympic Medalist Erika Connolly Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three-Time Olympic Medalist Erika Connolly Retires<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Erika Connolly,<\/strong> a two-time Olympian and three-time Olympic medalist, announced her retirement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Connolly and her husband, <strong>Alec Connolly<\/strong>, had announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN6_1eljvzy\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in August that the couple is expecting a baby<\/a>. That post came a day after Connolly turned 27.<\/p>\n<p>Connolly announced her retirement on Instagram.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOyzzwRDknJ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOyzzwRDknJ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Erika Connolly (@erikajadebrown)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Connolly, under her maiden name <strong>Erika Brown,<\/strong> qualified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-olympic-trials-day-7-notebook-how-erika-brown-reinvented-herself-to-make-tokyo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for the Tokyo<\/a> and Paris Olympics. She won bronze in the women\u2019s 400 free relay and silver in the women\u2019s medley relay at the Tokyo Olympics, then silver in the women\u2019s 400 free relay in Paris. She swam in finals only in the Tokyo 400 free, leading off that squad.<\/p>\n<p>At Olympic Trials in 2024, Connolly had to advance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swim-off-win-over-friend-catie-deloof-leaves-erika-connolly-in-shock-an-olympian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via a swim-off to get the sixth and final relay spot<\/a>, going head-to-head with training partner <strong>Catie DeLoof.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Connolly is also a two-time World Championships relay gold medalist. She won five total medals at Worlds in Budapest in 2022, including bronze in the women\u2019s 50 freestyle. She is also a nine-time World Short-Course medalist, all in relays and five of them gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spent the last few months reflecting on how grateful I am for these past 17 years in the sport of swimming,\u201d Connolly wrote in part. \u201cAs a young girl I could\u2019ve never imagined all that God had prepared for me. Swimming has been such a gift. It has taught me immense joy and deep heartbreak, but it has also given me amazing friends and memories I will never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A native of Charlotte, N.C., Connolly was twice named SEC Female Swimmer of the Year at the University of Tennessee. She was the Swimmer of the Meet at the 200 SEC Championships and won the SEC Commissioner\u2019s Trophy as top point-scorer three times. 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