Geraldine Arce

Geraldine Arce
Personal information
Full name Geraldine Arce Vanegas
National team  Nicaragua
Born (1988-02-01) 1 February 1988
Managua, Nicaragua
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Geraldine Arce Vanegas (born February 1, 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". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 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). 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. Retrieved 19 April 2013.

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