Lourdes Becerra
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
Notes
[edit]- ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Becerra and the second or maternal family name is Portero.
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lourdes Becerra". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2 December 2016.
Full name: María Lourdes Becerra Portero
- Lourdes Becerra File (in Catalan)
- Spanish Olympic Committee
External links
[edit]- Lourdes Becerra at World Aquatics
- Lourdes Becerra at Swimrankings.net
- Lourdes Becerra at Olympics.com
- Lourdes Becerra at Olympedia (archive)
- Lourdes Becerra Portero at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish) (archive)
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- Swimmers from Catalonia
- Spanish female breaststroke swimmers
- Spanish female medley swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Spain
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
- Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1991 Mediterranean Games
- Sportspeople from Sabadell
- 20th-century Spanish sportswomen
- Spanish swimming biography stubs