Please answer the following question: Lynn Edythe Burke (born March 22 1943) is an American former competition swimmer Olympic champion and former world record-holder. She competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where she won the gold medal in women's 100-meter backstroke in a new Olympic record time of 1:09.3. She won a second gold medal by swimming the backstroke leg for the winning U.S. 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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Athlete