{{Short description|American triathlete}} {{MedalTableTop}} {{MedalSport | Women's Triathlon}} {{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }} {{MedalCompetition|ITU World Championships}} {{MedalSilver| 2002 Cancún | Elite}} {{MedalCompetition|ITU World Cup}} {{MedalGold| 2003 | Overall}} {{MedalBottom}}
'''Barbara ("Barb") Metz Lindquist''' (born July 1, 1969, in Wilmington, Delaware) is a swimmer and triathlete from the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://triathlon.org/athletes/profile/5366/barbara-lindquist|title=Barbara Lindquist - Athlete Profile|website=Triathlon}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatriathlon.org/multisport/hall-of-fame|title=Hall of Fame|website=www.usatriathlon.org}}</ref>
She competed as a swimmer at Stanford University, and was on the swimmers' U.S. National Team, leaving the U.S. team in 1991.<ref name="auto"/>
She became a professional triathlete in 1996.<ref name="auto"/>
From February 2003 through 2004, she was ranked first in the world as a triathlete.<ref name="auto"/>
Lindquist competed at the Olympic triathlon in 2004,<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.triathlete.com/culture/people/inside-triathlons-10-most-influential-people-for-2012-10-barb-lindquist/|title=Inside Triathlon's 10 Most Influential People For 2012: #10 Barb Lindquist|date=December 10, 2012|website=Triathlete}}</ref> placing ninth.<ref name="auto"/>
She was on the U.S. world championship triathlon team ten times.<ref name="auto1"/>
Lindquist retired as a triathlete in 2005.<ref name="auto"/> She later served as the coach of the Under-23 National [Triathlon] Team and as the USAT Collegiate Recruitment Program Coordinator.<ref name="auto"/>
==Recognition== On Feb. 13, 2010, Lindquist was inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame.<ref name="auto"/>
She was number ten on the publication ''Inside Triathlon'''s 10 Most Influential People For 2012.<ref name="auto1"/>
In 2017 she was inducted into the International Triathlon Union Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.triathlete.com/culture/people/recalled-the-great-equalizer/|title=Recalled: The Great Equalizer|first=Sarah Wassner|last=Flynn|date=March 31, 2022|website=Triathlete}}</ref>
==External links== * {{Olympedia}} * {{Olympics.com profile|barbara-lindquist}} * {{World Triathlon}} * {{Official website|https://barblindquist.com/}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindquist, Barbara}} Category:1969 births Category:20th-century American sportswomen Category:21st-century American sportswomen Category:American female triathletes Category:American triathletes {{US-triathlon-bio-stub}} Category:Living people Category:Olympic triathletes for the United States Category:Sportspeople from Wilmington, Delaware Category:Triathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics