Melanie Slowing

Melanie Slowing
Personal information
Full name Melanie Slowing de Montenegro
National team  Guatemala
Born (1973-01-10) 10 January 1973
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

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]

She is the cousin of Karen Slowing who competed in the Olympics in 1984.[5]

References

  1. "Melanie Slowing". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  2. "Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  3. "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 4". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 20 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. Thomas, Stephen (20 August 2004). "Women's 50 Freestyle, Prelims Day 7: Inky Sizzles in World Best 24.66, Joyce Next in PR 25.06, Jenny Thompson Makes It Too". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  5. "Olympics". sports-reference. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
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