Lourdes Becerra
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FullnameMaría Lourdes Becerra Portero
Height172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
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| Full name | María Lourdes Becerra Portero | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 June 1973 Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | breaststroke and medley | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Club Natació Sabadell | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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María Lourdes Becerra Portero[a] (born 4 June 1973 in Sabadell, Catalonia) is a former medley and breaststroke swimmer, who competed at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona. Her best Olympic result came in 1996, when she finished seventh in the 400 m individual medley.[1]
At the 1999 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Hong Kong she won the bronze medal in the 400 m individual medley. At the 1998 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Sheffield she won silver in the 200 m breaststroke and bronze in the 400 m individual medley.
She started to swim at 10 years old, in the Club Natació Sabadell, her only ever club.
