How old was Dara Torres when, in her 5th Olympic Games, she became the oldest swimmer to win an Olympic medal?

Dara Grace Torres (born April 15, 1967) is a North American former competitive swimmer who is a twelve-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in three events. Torres is the first swimmer to represent the United States in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and, at age 41, the oldest swimmer to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team.

On August 1, 2007, at age 40 and just 16 months after giving birth to her first child, Torres won the 100-meter freestyle at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis. On August 4, she set a new national record in the 50-meter freestyle of 24.53 seconds, breaking her own record of 24.63 seconds set at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She lowered her initial national record by 1.62 seconds. Torres has broken or lowered her own record in the 50-meter freestyle 10 times, which is the most by any North American swimmer in any event.

At the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, Torres returned to the pool and qualified for a spot in her fifth Olympic Games at the age of 41, a first for a North American female swimmer. She became the oldest U.S. Olympic swimmer in history and the first North American swimmer to appear in five Olympic Games