Geraldine Arce

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Geraldine Arce
Personal information
Full nameGeraldine Arce Vanegas
National teamFlag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua
Born (1988-02-01) 1 February 1988 (age 35)
Managua, Nicaragua
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Geraldine Arce Vanegas (born 1 February 1988) is a Nicaraguan swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [1] Arce qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle, as a 16-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 28.15. [2] [3] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including 31-year-old Melanie Slowing of Guatemala. She edged out Sri Lanka's Menaka de Silva to take a sixth spot by two tenths of a second (0.20) in 28.73. Arce failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-first overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries. [4] [5]

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