Antonella Scanavino
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Antonella Scanavino Crespo |
| Nationality |
 Uruguay |
| Born |
30 October 1992 Maldonado, Uruguay |
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Event(s) | Butterfly, individual medley |
| Club | Campus de Maldonado |
Antonella Scanavino Crespo (born October 30, 1992 in Maldonado) is a Uruguayan swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and individual medley events.[1] At age fifteen, she became one of the youngest swimmers to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She is the daughter of Carlos Scanavino, a long-distance freestyle swimmer, who won silver at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, and had competed in two Olympic games (1984 in Los Angeles, and 1988 in Seoul).[2] Following her father's footsteps, she held eight national records for the butterfly and medley events in both long and short course swimming.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Scanavino competed for the women's 100 m butterfly, held on the first day of the swimming event. She finished second in the first heat by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind Senegal's Binta Zahra Diop, with a time of 1:04.28. Scanavino, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed forty-eighth in the overall rankings.[3]
References
- ↑ "Antonella Scanavino". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ↑ "El precio de la gloria: Ex nadador olímpico vende su colección de medallas" [The price of fame: Former Olympic swimmer sold his collection of medals] (in Spanish). El Pais (Uruguay). Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Butterfly – Heat 1". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.