Adriana Marmolejo

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Adriana Marmolejo
Personal information
Full nameAdriana Rebeca Marmolejo Vargas
National teamFlag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
Born (1982-03-05) March 5, 1982 (age 42)
Mexico City, Mexico
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
College team Texas A&M University (USA) (2000–2002)
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Mexico
Pan American Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2003 Santo Domingo 4x100 m medley
Central American & Caribbean Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Cartagena 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2006 Cartagena 50 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2006 Cartagena 100 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2006 Cartagena 4x100 m medley

Adriana Rebeca Marmolejo Vargas (born March 5, 1982) [1] is a 3-time Olympic and national record-holding swimmer from Mexico. She swam at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics, [2] making her the first Mexican woman to swim at 3 Olympic Games. [3] She has held the Mexican Records in the 50, 100 and 200 breaststrokes since 1998. [3]

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In January 2009, Marmolejo became an assistant coach with the men's and women's swimming teams at Arizona State University. [3] After coaching in Phoenix, and later at Northwestern University, Marmolejo joined the coaching staff at the University of Chicago In October 2010. [4]

Family

Adriana father's, Ricardo, [3] and her brother Pablo [5] have both been members of Mexico's national swimming team. Ricardo swam at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics. [3] [5] Pablo swam at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games (alongside Adriana) and at the 2007 World Championships. [5] At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy Pablo set the Mexico National Record in the 100 meter butterfly. A record once held father, Ricardo. In June 2011, Adriana married Kyle Schack of Huntington Woods, Michigan in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. She changed her name to Adriana Schack.

Swimming

Adriana has won 75 Mexican National titles over the course of her swimming career. [3]

She swam collegiately for the USA's Texas A&M University. [6]

On August 10, 1998, at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games in Maracaibo, Venezuela, she set the Games Record in the women's 200m Breaststroke (2:37.12). She also bettered the mark at the 2006 CACs. [7]

At the 2008 Olympics, Marmolejo swam a lifetime best time and bettered her Mexican Record in the 100 and 200m breaststroke (1:10.73 and 2:28.10). [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Marmolejo's bio page Archived September 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine from the 2008 Olympics website; retrieved 2009-07-09.
  2. ↑ Marmolejo's entry from www.sports-reference.com; retrieved 2009-07-09.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Marmolejo's bio from the Arizona State University athletics website; published 2009-01; retrieved 2009-07-09
  4. ↑ "University of Chicago Men's Swimming & Diving Roster". Archived from the original on 2010-12-31. Retrieved 2010-11-22. from the University of Chicago athletics website; published 2010-10; retrieved 2010-11-22
  5. 1 2 3 Pablo Marmolejo's bio from the West Virginia University athletics website; retrieved 2009-07-09.
  6. ↑ Q&A with Adriana Marmolejo [ permanent dead link ] from the Texas A&M Athletics website; published 2002-12-05, retrieved 2009-07-09.
  7. ↑ Results from the Final of the women's 200 breast at the 2006 CACs [ permanent dead link ], showing Marmolejo's 1998 record, and that she broke the Games Record in 2006. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  8. ↑ (in Spanish) Adriana Marmolejo bate el récord nacional de los 200 braza (trans: "Adriana Marmolejo breaks the national record in the 200 breast"). soitu.es; published 2008-08-13, retrieved 2009-07-10.
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