Juan Pablo Valdivieso

Last updated
Juan Pablo Valdivieso
Personal information
Full nameJuan Pablo Valdivieso
National teamFlag of Peru (state).svg  Peru
Born (1981-02-27) 27 February 1981 (age 43)
Washington, DC, United States
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly
ClubCarderock Springs Swim Club (U.S.) [1]
College team Princeton University (U.S.)
CoachRick Curl (U.S.) [1]

Juan Pablo Valdivieso (born February 27, 1981) is a Peruvian former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. [2] Valdivieso holds a dual citizenship between his parents' nation Peru and the United States, where he currently resides. He is also influenced by his grandfather Juan Valdivieso, who played for Peru's soccer team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. [1]

Valdivieso started swimming for the Carderock Swim Team at the age of five. During his teenage years, he tried out for the South American Junior Championships, before competing at the U.S. senior nationals. In 1999, he graduated from Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, and deferred his acceptance to Princeton University for a year, so that he could train for his first Olympics. [1] [3]

Valdivieso made his first Peruvian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Swimming in heat two of the men's 200 m butterfly, he edged out Thailand's Dulyarit Phuangthong to earn a fourth spot and thirty-sixth overall by 0.48 of a second in 2:03.67. [1] [4]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Valdivieso extended his program, competing in two individual events. He achieved a FINA A-cut of 2:00.03 (200 m butterfly) from the USA National Championships in College Park, Maryland. [1] [5] [6] In the 200 m butterfly, he challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including top medal favorite Takashi Yamamoto of Japan. He rounded out the field to last place and twenty-eighth overall by 0.90 of a second behind Hungary's Dávid Kolozár in 2:02.79. [7] [8] In the 100 m butterfly, Valdivieso placed forty-seventh on the morning's preliminaries. Swimming in heat three, he saved a seventh spot over Algeria's Aghiles Slimani by 0.24 of a second with a time of 55.98. [9] [10]

Between his two Olympic stints, Valdivieso attended Princeton University in New Jersey, where he majored in political economy and became a captain of the swimming team for the Princeton Tigers.

Related Research Articles

Serhiy Mykolaiovych Advena is a Ukrainian former swimmer who specializes in the freestyle and butterfly swimming styles. He is a two-time Olympian, and a multiple-time Ukrainian record holder in both 100 and 200 m butterfly. He also helped out the Ukrainian team to upset their American rivals and claim the medley relay title (3:38.49) at the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir, Turkey.

Sergey Pankov is an Uzbek swimmer, who specialized in backstroke and butterfly events. He won a bronze medal in the 200 m backstroke at the 2006 Asian Swimming Championships in Singapore, and had achieved an eighth-place finish in the same discipline at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

Donny Budiarto Utomo is an Indonesian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He is a former multiple-time national record holder for the men's butterfly, and a six-time medalist at the Southeast Asian Games. He is also a two-time defending champion for the 200 m butterfly, before losing out to Malaysia's Daniel Bego at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

Michal Rubáček is a Czech swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He is a two-time Olympian, and a multiple-time Czech national record holder for the butterfly events.

Łukasz Drzewiński is a Polish former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. Drzewinski won a silver medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2002 European Junior Swimming Championships in Linz, Austria with a time of 2:00.21, edging out Ukraine's Serhiy Advena by 0.04 of a second. He is a member of the swimming team for AZS Warszawa, and is coached and trained by Roberta Białeckiego.

Dávid Kolozár is a Hungarian former swimmer who specialized in butterfly events. He is a former varsity swimmer for the Arizona State Sun Devils, and a graduate of tourism and business at the Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Jeong Doo-hee is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He represented his nation South Korea at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and shared silver medals with Park Seon-kwan, Choi Kyu-woong, and Park Tae-hwan in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

Han Kyu-chul is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle, butterfly, and individual medley events. He is a two-time Olympian, and an eight-time bronze medalist at the Asian Games.

Paulius Andrijauskas is a Lithuanian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He currently holds two Lithuanian records in the 200 m butterfly (2:01.98), and 4×200 m freestyle relay (7:25.37) from the 2007 FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.

Alexandros Aresti is a Cypriot former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. He is a two-time Olympian, and a Cypriot record holder in the 100 and 200 m freestyle.

Pavel Mikalayevich Lahun is a Belarusian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. He is a two-time Olympian, and a three-time medalist at the FINA World Cup.

Aleksandar Miladinovski is a Macedonian former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and individual medley events. He represented the Republic of Macedonia in two editions of the Olympic Games, and held five Macedonian records in the butterfly and individual medley.

Zoran Lazarovski is a Macedonian former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He is a two-time Olympian, and a former Macedonian record holder in the 200 m butterfly.

Aghiles Slimani is an Algerian former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. Slimani qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by posting FINA B-standard entry times of 55.40 and 2:03.18 from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. In the 200 m butterfly, Slimani challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Olympic veteran Vladan Marković of Serbia. He raced to sixth place and thirty-first overall by 0.16 of a second behind Markovic in 2:04.93. In his second event, 100 m butterfly, Slimani placed forty-eighth on the morning's preliminaries. Swimming in heat three, he edged out Turkey's Onur Uras to take a seventh seed by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15) in 56.22.

Gastón Rodríguez is an Argentine swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He currently holds short-course Argentine records in the 200 m butterfly (1:57.34) and 200 m individual medley (2:01.03), both from the national championships in Rosario.

Yeh Tzu-cheng is a Taiwanese swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. Yeh qualified for the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by posting a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:03.28 from the National University Games in Taipei. He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including four-time Olympian Vladan Marković of Serbia and Montenegro. He rounded out the field to last place by a 6.39-second margin behind winner Nathaniel O'Brien of Canada in 2:06.41. Yeh failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-sixth overall in the preliminaries.

Roy Felipe Barahona Fuentes is a Honduran swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. Barahona qualified for the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 2:06.14. He challenged six other swimmers in heat one, including 15-year-old Sergey Pankov of Uzbekistan. He set a lifetime best of 2:05.99 to pull off a third-place finish by 0.28 of a second behind Indonesia's Donny Utomo. Barahona failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth overall in the preliminaries.

Bertrand Bristol is a Seychellois former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. Bristol qualified for the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 2:09.68. He challenged six other swimmers in heat one, including 15-year-old Sergey Pankov of Uzbekistan. He set a Seychellois record of 2:09.07 to edge out Pankov for a sixth spot by nearly four seconds. Bristol failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.

Albert Christiadi Sutanto is an Indonesian former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and medley events. He is a two-time Olympian, and multi medalist 9 Gold 5 Silver and 16 Bronze at the Southeast Asian Games.

Konstantin Andriushin is a Kyrgyz former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He is a two-time Olympian, and a member of the Kyrgyzstan swimming team since the breakup of the Soviet Union. In March 2000, Andriushin became one of the 44 candidates to be elected to the IOC Athletes' Commission, but he was shortlisted.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Bethesda Man Heads for Olympics". The Connection Newspaper. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Juan Pablo Valdivieso". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  3. ↑ Stevens, Ruth (10 September 2000). "Swimmer delays start of school to represent Peru in Olympics". The Princeton Bulletin . Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000 . LA84 Foundation. p. 216. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 200m Butterfly Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Athens 2004 . Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Ivies Shine In Water". Ivy League Sports. 8 August 2003. Retrieved 23 April 2013.[ permanent dead link ]
  7. ↑ "Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 4". Athens 2004 . BBC Sport. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  8. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (16 August 2004). "Men's 200 Butterfly, Prelims Day 3: Michael Phelps and Japan's Yamamoto Tie As Fastest Qualifiers; Tom Malchow will be there too". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 December 2005. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  9. ↑ "Men's 100m Butterfly Heat 3". Athens 2004 . BBC Sport. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  10. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (19 August 2004). "Men's 100 Butterfly, Day 6 Prelims: Crocker Blasts Back into Form as Fastest Qualifier; Serdinov and Phelps Right on his Tail". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.