Betiana Basualdo
Argentinian swimmer
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Betiana Basualdo (born May 12, 1976) is an Argentinian S2 para-swimmer. She has won two gold medals, three silver medals, and six bronze medals between the Paralympic Games and IPC Swimming World Championships.
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| Born | 12 May 1976 Buenos Aires, Argentina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paralympic swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Career
Basualdo was born on May 12, 1976, in Buenos Aires.[1] Basualdo made her Paralympic debut for Argentina during the 1996 Summer Paralympics at the age of 18. She won three medals during the games; a silver medal in the women’s 50m freestyle, bronze in the 50m backstroke, and gold in the 100m freestyle.[2] Following this, Basualdo competed at the 1998 IPC Swimming World Championships where she won a silver medal in the women's 200 meter freestyle and bronze in the women's 50 meter backstroke.[3]
After failing to medal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics,[3] Basualdo won three bronze medals at the 2002 IPC Swimming World Championships in Argentina.[4] Basualdo eventually returned to the Paralympic podium in 2004 after placing third in the women's 100 m freestyle behind Spain's Sara Carracelas García and Great Britain's Danielle Watts.[5]