Gabrielle Rose

Gabrielle Rose competed at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics for Brazil, swimming the 100 freestyle, 100 butterfly, and the 200 individual medley. With an American father (who was the CEO of Holiday Inn) and a Brazilian mother, she had dual citizenship and switched allegiance to the United States, swimming the 200 IM for them at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Rose swam in college at Stanford, graduating in 2000. She later earned an MBA from Stanford in 2009. Rose won two gold medals at the 2003 World Championships in relays for the USA. While representing Brazil she won three medals at the 1995 Pan American Games, a silver in the 100 butterfly, and bronze medals in the 4x100 freestyle relay and the medley relay. She later swam at the 1999 Pan Ams for the US. Rose won a silver medal in the 200 IM at the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships, swimming for the USA.

In 2023 Rose came out of retirement, focusing on the 100 metre breaststroke. She achieved a qualifying time for the 2024 US Olympics Trials and competed at the Trials in June 2024 in an attempt to qualify for a third Olympic Games. Had she qualified Rose would have been the oldest female Olympic swimmer ever, trailing only an obscure 1900 male Olympic swimmer, E. T. Jones, who was just over 50 years old at the 1900 Paris Games. Rose continued to compete and at the 2025 US National Championships, she made the final in the 100 breaststroke, finishing seventh.