Amanda Beard Autographs
Amanda Ray Beard (born October 29, 1981), also known by her married name Amanda Brown after 2009, is an American swimmer and a seven-time Olympic medalist with two gold, four silver, and one bronze medal. She is a former world record holder in the 200-meter breaststroke long course. An exceptionally accomplished competitor, Beard captured a total of twenty-one medals in major international competition, five gold, thirteen silver, and three bronze spanning the Olympics, the World Championships, the Pan Pacific Championships, and the Summer Universiade. In addition to brief careers in modeling, advertising, and broadcasting, she has worked as a swimming coach and instructor.
Beard was born October 29, 1981 in Newport Beach, California. Her father Daniel, a Professor at a local college and mother Gayle, a long serving art teacher, primarily for high schools, divorced around 1993 when Beard was twelve. Amanda began competing in swimming at an early age. Her two older sisters, Leah and Taryn both competed in swimming when Amanda was young, and which may have subtly influenced her to pursue the sport. She attended Irvine High School in Irvine California, competing in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics as only a Freshman. She trained with the Irvine Novaquatics during her High School years under Hall of Fame Coach Dave Salo and age-group coach Brian Pajer. Though Coach Salo preferred his High School swimming competitors to train no more than ten hours a week, he and age group coach Brian Pajer helped shape Amanda in her early years into a world ranked breaststroke competitor, and she subsequently ceased competing in club soccer in early 1994 to focus exclusively on swimming. At 14, after a meteoric rise in the sport in a two year period, Beard had a world rating of fourth in the 200 meter breaststroke, and was rated sixth in the 100 breaststroke. Salo's approach to training high school age competitors focused more on intensity than very long distance training sessions.
While representing Irvine High School, Beard held the California Interscholastic Federation Division 1 record in the 100-meter breaststroke of 1:01.79. A notably dominant regional team, the Irvine High School Vaquero's Women's swim team, frequently with Beard's participation, won the Division I Southern Section (CIF) Championships five years successively from 1996-2001.
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Traded items with a signature of Amanda Beard
The most expensive item with a signature of Amanda Beard (Amanda Beard Signed 8x10 PHOTO Sexy Athlete USA FHM Swimming AUTOGRAPH JSA Rare) was sold in March 2025 for $256.58 while the cheapest item (Amanda Beard Signed Autograph ( Hot Olympic Swimmer auto) RARE!) found a new owner for $0.01 in November 2011. The month with the most items sold (6) was May 2017 with an average selling price of $11.75 for an autographed item of Amanda Beard. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2025 with $100.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $2.25 was February 2020. In average, an autographed item from Amanda Beard is worth $13.50.
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