Olympic silver medalist Annie Lazor and her now husband, Brazilian Olympian Vinicius Lanza, celebrated their marriage ceremony on September 15 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They introduced their engagement through Instagram on December 22, 2022, and have been collectively since Might 2018.
Lazor, initially from Detroit, Michigan, began her collegiate profession at Ohio State College earlier than transferring to Auburn College after her freshman 12 months, the place she graduated in 2016.
She then retired from swimming after a disappointing Olympic Trials in 2016, the place she completed tenth within the 100 breaststroke and seventh within the 200 breaststroke. She took an administrative place at Cal below males’s head swimming coach and former Auburn coach, Dave Durden.
Within the spring of 2018, Lazor made her method to Bloomington, the place she joined forces with head coach Ray Looze and 100 breaststroke world document holder Lilly King.
On the 2021 U.S. Olympic Crew Trials, Lazor and her coaching accomplice, King, went 1-2 within the 200 breaststroke, making it an Indiana sweep within the occasion. This marked Lazor’s first-ever Olympic workforce. She went on to win a bronze medal on the Tokyo Video games within the occasion.
On the 2021 Golden Goggles, Lazor received the Perseverance Award after shedding her father three months earlier than profitable bronze on the Olympics.
In June 2023, it was introduced that Lazor would be a part of the College of Florida as an assistant coach. Just a few weeks later, she introduced her retirement from aggressive swimming.
The College of Florida girls’s workforce is coming off a breakout 12 months after ending third on the NCAA Championships, their finest end since 2010. They established themselves as one of the best mixed program within the nation with each genders ending third at NCAAs.
Lazor’s husband, Lanza, swam collegiately for Indiana College from the spring of 2016 to 2019. He was a three-time Massive Ten Swimmer of the Meet and clinched an NCAA Championship within the 100 butterfly throughout his senior season with a time of 44.37. This victory made him the primary Hoosier to win the 100 butterfly since Mark Spitz in 1972. He was additionally a key a part of the profitable 400 medley relay workforce, swimming the butterfly leg.
Each Lazor and Lanza competed on the London Roar ISL workforce throughout the 2020 and 2021 seasons and overlapped of their time at Indiana.
Lanza competes internationally for his house nation of Brazil. On the 2018 Tokyo Pan Pacific Championships, he received his first main worldwide medal within the 100 butterfly, touching for bronze in 51.44. He positioned twenty sixth on the Tokyo Video games within the 100 butterfly and twenty fifth within the 200 IM.
He lately competed on the 2023 Peru Pan American Video games, the place he earned a silver within the 100 butterfly.
