Natalie Coughlin
- ELIMINATED -
Dance Partner:
Alec Mazo
Week 5 Stats
Dance: Paso Doble
Score: 22 points
Natalie SAYS
Previous Quote
Athletically I'm used to being the best...so when I'm on the dance floor and I'm not getting it, I get frustrated.
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Dmitry Chaplin
on pushing hard"The question is do we sit still and be complacent or prove ourselves and push further."
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Len Goodman
on Natalie's Bolero"I thought it had the most beautiful lyrical movement throughout."
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Bruno Tonioli
on Natalie's Paso Doble"Natalie, the wonder woman. It's slighty wonderless, this Paso Doble."
STAR BIO
DANCE PARTNER: Alec Mazo
PROFESSION:
Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist
BACKGROUND:
There are plenty of medals adorning this Olympic swimmer's mantle. Is there any room left up there for the coveted DWTS disco ball trophy?
Olympic swimming gold medalist Natalie Coughlin is the most decorated female athlete of both the 2008 Beijing and 2004 Athens Games. Coughlin has won a medal in every single Olympic event that she has ever entered for a total of 11 Olympic medals.
In 2008 she became the first American female athlete to win six medals in one Olympiad in addition to becoming the first woman to win consecutive individual Olympic gold medals in the 100m backstroke.
Coughlin is also the most decorated female swimmer in World Championship history with sixteen medals. Born and raised in northern California, Coughlin attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a B.A. in psychology in 2005.
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FINAL FIVE - BALLROOM
Watch and score Week 8's dances
- 1. Mya & Dmitry's Quickstep Judges' scores: 9|10|10 (29 points)
- 2. Aaron & Katrina's Foxtrot Judges' scores: 7|8|8 (23 points)
- 3. Joanna & Derek's Quickstep Judges' scores: 8|7|8 (23 points)
- 4. Kelly & Louis' Foxtrot Judges' scores: 8|8|9 (25 points)
- 5. Donny & Kym's Viennese Waltz Judges' scores: 9|8|9 (26 points)