Personal information | |
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Full name | Carolina Cerqueda Santacreu |
National team | ![]() |
Born | Andorra la Vella, Andorra | 7 November 1985
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Club | CN Sabadell (ESP) |
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]
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