Jorge Carral

Jorge Carral
Personal information
Full name Jorge Carral Armella
National team  Mexico
Born (1983-09-02) 2 September 1983
Mexico City, Mexico
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Jorge Carral Armella (born September 2, 1983) is a Mexican former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.[1] He held numerous national age group records in the 400 and 1500 m freestyle, and later represented Mexico at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Carral competed in a long-distance freestyle double, as a 17-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He posted FINA B-standards of 3:56.20 (400 m freestyle) and 15:33.66 (1500 m freestyle) from the Mexican Youth Olympic Festival in Hermosillo.[2][3][4] On the first day of the Games, Carral placed twenty-eighth in the 400 m freestyle. Swimming in heat three, he held off New Zealand's Jonathan Duncan by 0.18 of a second to take a fourth spot in 3:58.34.[5][6] Nearly a week later, in the 1500 m freestyle, Carral challenged seven other swimmers in the same heat, including top favorites Ricardo Monasterio of Venezuela and Spyridon Gianniotis of Greece. He finished the program's longest race in sixth place and thirty-first overall at 15:43.03, almost ten seconds off his Mexican record and entry time.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Jorge Carral". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 400m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 1500m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Jorge Carral calificó a Juegos Olímpicos en mil 500 metros libres" [Jorge Carral qualified for 1500m free at the Olympics] (in Spanish). La Jornada. 6 April 2000. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 400m Freestyle Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 133. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  6. ↑ Newberry, Paul (16 September 2000). "Thompson anchors U.S. relay win; Thorpe wins 400 free". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 1500m Freestyle Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 147. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  8. ↑ Galván Juaréz, Esteban (17 September 2000). "Jorge Carral subió su tiempo en los 1500 metros libre" [Jorge Carral finished his time in the 1500 meters freestyle] (in Spanish). Esmas.com. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
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