Elizabeth Cynthia Barr (born December 17 1971) is a former American competition swimmer who was a backstroke specialist and Olympic silver medalist. As a 16-year-old she represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul South Korea. She who won a silver medal by swimming the backstroke leg for the second-place U.S. team in the women's 4x100-meter medley relay together with teammates Janel Jorgensen (butterfly) Tracey McFarlane (breaststroke) and Mary Wayte (freestyle). Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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