Carolina Cerqueda

Carolina Cerqueda
Personal information
Full name	Carolina Cerqueda Santacreu
National team	Andorra
Born	7 November 1985; Andorra la Vella, Andorra
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	CN Sabadell (ESP)

Carolina Cerqueda Santacreu (born November 7, 1985) is an Andorran former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.^[1] She is a 2004 Olympian and currently holds three Andorran records each in the 50, 100, and 200 m freestyle. She is a former member of Club Natació Sabadell in Spain.

Cerqueda qualified for the women's 100 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA. Four months before the Games, she posted an invitation time of 1:00.62 at the European Championships in Madrid, Spain.^[2]^[3] She topped the first heat against Burundi's Larissa Inangorore and Benin's Gloria Koussihouede by a wide margin of 23 seconds, in her lifetime best of 1:00.38. Cerqueda failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.^[4]^[5]

References

↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Carolina Cerqueda". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
↑ "Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
↑ "2004 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Madrid, Spain) – Women's 100m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
↑ "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
↑ Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Women's 100 Freestyle Prelims, Day 5: Inky Leads the Pack with a Swift 54.43". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.

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[1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Carolina Cerqueda". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 April 2013.

[2] "Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 19 April 2013.

[3] "2004 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Madrid, Spain) – Women's 100m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 29 April 2013.

[4] "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

[5] Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Women's 100 Freestyle Prelims, Day 5: Inky Leads the Pack with a Swift 54.43". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.