Fernando Medrano (swimmer)

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Fernando Medrano
Personal information
Full nameFernando Medrano Medina
National teamFlag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua
Born (1988-05-14) 14 May 1988 (age 36)
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly

Fernando Medrano Medina (born May 14, 1988) is a Nicaraguan former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. [1] Medrano qualified for the men's 100 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 1:00.80. [2] [3] He participated in heat one against two other swimmers Luis Matias of Angola and Rad Aweisat of Palestine. He raced to second place by nearly two seconds behind winner Matias in 1:00.91. Medrano failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-eighth overall in the preliminaries. [4] [5]

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