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Full name | Ricardo Andrés Monasterio Guimaraes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Caracas, Venezuela | October 22, 1978||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Florida (U.S.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ricardo Andrés Monasterio Guimaraes (born October 22, 1978) is a former competition swimmer who represented Venezuela at the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.
Monasterio was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he swam for coach Gregg Troy's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1999 to 2001. He received four All-American honors while swimming for the Gators. Monasterio graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in statistics in 2004.
Monasterio won the 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle events at the 2003 Pan American Games.[1]
See also
[edit]- List of University of Florida alumni
- List of University of Florida Olympians
- South American records in swimming
References
[edit]- ^ "Pan American Games Rio 2007 Results". Archived from the original on 2007-07-14. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
External links
[edit]- Ricardo Monasterio – University of Florida athlete profile at GatorZone.com