Tiffany Lisa Cohen (born June 11, 1966) is an American former swimmer who was a double gold medalist at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle.
[3] While still with the Nadadores in High School in 1981, Cohen won three 400-meter national outdoor championships in a row and in a match with the Soviet Union finished second in the 400 and 800 meters.
[7] In 1982 in early August, she finished third, taking a bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle at the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
[10] After High School graduation, she attended the University of Texas in the Fall of 1984 and trained under Richard Quick, who had also been a coach at the 1984 Olympics where she had just won her two gold medals the previous summer.
Cohen was still a top College and National competitor, but was slipping from the World Record times more common to Olympic medal winners.
[15] Late in her swimming career, she moved her club membership to the Irvine Novas under Flip Darr around 1987, who trained her for the Pan Pacific Championships that summer.
[3] Around 1986, in her Junior year at the University of Texas, she was operated on for torn cartilage in her right shoulder, but recovered and continued to swim competitively, though she had likely reached her peak performance times.
[10] After her retirement from swimming, and her 1988 graduation from the University of Texas with a degree in journalism,[4] Cohen eventually moved to Florida and worked in a business management role developing better hospice care for her home state.