Carolina Cerqueda Explained

Carolina Cerqueda
Full Name:Carolina Cerqueda Santacreu
Strokes:Freestyle
Club:CN Sabadell (ESP)
Birth Date:7 November 1985
Birth Place:Andorra la Vella, Andorra
Height:1.60 m
Weight:53 kg
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Carolina Cerqueda Santacreu (born November 7, 1985) is an Andorran former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is a 2004 Olympian and currently holds three Andorran records each in the 50, 100, and 200 m freestyle. She is a former member of Club Natació Sabadell in Spain.

Cerqueda qualified for the women's 100 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA. Four months before the Games, she posted an invitation time of 1:00.62 at the European Championships in Madrid, Spain.[2] [3] She topped the first heat against Burundi's Larissa Inangorore and Benin's Gloria Koussihouede by a wide margin of 23 seconds, in her lifetime best of 1:00.38. Cerqueda failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Carolina Cerqueda . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418062657/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ce/carolina-cerqueda-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 29 April 2013.
  2. Web site: Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 1) . . . Omega Timing . 19 April 2013.
  3. Web site: 2004 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Madrid, Spain) – Women's 100m Freestyle Heats . . Omega Timing . 29 April 2013.
  4. Web site: Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 1 . . . 18 August 2004 . 31 January 2013.
  5. News: Thomas . Stephen . Women's 100 Freestyle Prelims, Day 5: Inky Leads the Pack with a Swift 54.43 . . 18 August 2004 . 19 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131228200618/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/7873.asp . 28 December 2013.