Liliana Guiscardo
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Liliana Eugenia Guiscardo |
| Nationality |
 Argentina |
| Born |
21 July 1981 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Breaststroke |
Liliana Eugenia Guiscardo (born July 21, 1981 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] Guiscardo qualified for the women's 100 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:10.38 from the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2][3] She challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including three-time Olympian Smiljana Marinović of Croatia. She touched out Brazil's Tatiane Sakemi to take the fourth spot by 0.32 of a second in 1:11.43. Guiscardo failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-seventh out of 49 swimmers in the preliminary heats.[4]
References
- ↑ "Liliana Guiscardo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
- ↑ "Maria Lenk Trophy: Tatiane Sakemi, Henrique Barbosa Blitz South American Breaststroke Records". Swimming World Magazine. 9 May 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Breaststroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 69. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 23 December 2012.