Roy Barahona

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Roy Barahona
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Full nameRoy Felipe Barahona Fuentes
National teamFlag of Honduras.svg  Honduras
Born (1986-03-20) 20 March 1986 (age 38)
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly

Roy Felipe Barahona Fuentes (born March 20, 1986) is a Honduran swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. [1] 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. [2] 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. [3] [4] [5]

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References

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