Melanie Slowing
Guatemalan swimmer (born 1973)
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Melanie Slowing de Montenegro (born January 10, 1973) is a Guatemalan former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] Slowing qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle, as a 31-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by breaking a Guatemalan record and posting a FINA B-cut of 26.89 from the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Mexico City.[2] She topped the fourth heat by less than 0.04 of a second ahead of Moldova's Maria Tregubova in 27.44. Slowing failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-sixth overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries.[3][4]
Guatemala| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Melanie Slowing de Montenegro |
| National team | Guatemala |
| Born | 10 January 1973 Guatemala City, Guatemala |
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
She is the sister of Karen Slowing who competed in the Olympics in 1984.[5]
