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 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
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]