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| Full name | Brenton Cabello Forns | |||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | |||||||||||
| Born | 26 September 1981 (age 42) Barcelona, Spain | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
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Brenton Cabello Forns [lower-alpha 1] (born 26 September 1981 in Barcelona) is a Spanish medley swimmer who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics. [1]
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