Geraldine Arce

Geraldine Arce

Personal information
Full name	Geraldine Arce Vanegas
National team	Nicaragua
Born	(1988-02-01) 1 February 1988 (age 37) Managua, Nicaragua
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	60 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]}

References

1. "Geraldine Arce". 7 May 2013. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
2. "Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Athens 2004 . Omega Timing. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
3. Pérez, Wilder (11 May 2004). "Dos más a Atenas" [Two more to Athens] (in Spanish). La Prensa (Nicaragua). Archived from the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
4. "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 4". Athens 2004 . BBC Sport. 20 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
5. Thomas, Stephen (20 August 2004). "Women's 50 Freestyle, Prelims Day 7: Inky Sizzles in World Best 24.66, Joyce Next in PR 25.06, Jenny Thompson Makes It Too". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2013.

External links

• Sports Profile – Terra Central America Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)