Francisco Sánchez (swimmer)
Appearance
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Full name | Francisco Demetrio Sánchez Betancourt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Venezuela | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela | September 6, 1976|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly and Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Lázaro Hernández | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Arizona State University (USA) (1995-'99) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Francisco Demetrio Sánchez Betancourt (born September 6, 1976) is a former butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Venezuela, who won the 50 meter freestyle at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships (25 meter pool) in Rio de Janeiro. Two years later, at the third edition of the event, he won the 50 meter and the 100 meter freestyle.
He swam collegiately for the USA's Arizona State University in the late 1990s.[1]
At the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games, he set a Championship Record in the 100 fly (53.86). This record stood until the 2006 Games where it was bettered by fellow Venezuelan Albert Subirats.[2]
References
- ^ 1996-97 Men's Swimming and Diving Highlights from the ASU Athletics website (www.thesundevils.com). Retrieved 2009-06-21.
- ^ Men's 100 fly results from the 2006 CACs.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Francisco Sánchez". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2008-12-23.
Categories:
- 1976 births
- Living people
- People from Cumaná
- Venezuelan male swimmers
- Male butterfly swimmers
- Male freestyle swimmers
- Arizona State Sun Devils men's swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Venezuela
- Swimmers at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- South American swimming biography stubs
- Venezuelan sportspeople stubs
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Venezuela
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Venezuela
- Pan American Games medalists in swimming