Walter Arciprete

Walter Arciprete
Personal information
Full name Walter Dario Arciprete
National team  Argentina
Born (1979-05-25) 25 May 1979
Arroyo Seco, Santa Fe, Argentina
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke, medley

Walter Dario Arciprete (born May 25, 1979) is an Argentine former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke and in individual medley events.[1] He represented Argentina at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and achieved numerous Argentine titles and records from the national championships, including his 50 m breaststroke standard (27.81) that stood for more than a decade.[2][3]

Arciprete competed only in the men's 200 m individual medley at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He achieved a FINA B-cut of 2:07.52 from the Argentine Long Course Nationals in Buenos Aires.[4] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Kazakhstan's 29-year-old Grigoriy Matuzkov. Coming out strongly from a breaststroke leg, Arciprete faded shortly on the final lap to a fifth seed in 2:08.89, just 3.44 seconds behind winner Matuzkov. Arciprete failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-fifth overall in the prelims.[3][5][6]

References

  1. "Walter Arciprete". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  2. "Walter Arciprete Sets National Mark on Day 3 of Argentina Long Course Nats". Swimming World Magazine. 21 December 2003. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Sydney 2000: Día por día" [Sydney 2000: Day by day] (in Spanish). Argentine Swimming Federation. 16–22 September 2000. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  4. "Swimming – Men's 200m Individual Medley Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  5. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 200m Individual Medley Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 307. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  6. "Results from the Summer Olympics – Swimming (Men's 200m Individual Medley)". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 7 July 2013.


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