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Natalie was the first U.S. female athlete in modern Olympic history to win how many medals in one Olympiad at the 2008 Summer Olympics?

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Natalie Coughlin is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic champion who is the all-time winningest female Olympic swimmer in US history, with a total of 12 Olympic medals. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she won six medals, the most ever by a US female swimmer in one Olympiad, breaking the record set by Amy Van Dyken at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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