Antonella Scanavino
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Antonella Scanavino Crespo |
| National team |
 Uruguay |
| Born |
30 October 1992 Maldonado, Uruguay |
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Butterfly, medley |
| Club | Campus de Maldonado[1] |
Antonella Scanavino Crespo (born October 30, 1992) is a Uruguayan swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and individual medley events.[2][1] At age fifteen, she became one of the youngest swimmers to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics, representing her nation Uruguay. Scanavino is the daughter of the nation's former long-distance freestyle ace Carlos Scanavino, who won silver at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, and had appeared in two editions of the Olympic Games (1984 and 1988).[3]
Scanavino was invited by FINA through the Universality rule to compete as a lone female swimmer for Uruguay in the 100 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[4] Swimming against Senegal's Binta Zahra Diop and San Marino's Simona Muccioli in heat one, Scanavino trailed the Senegalese rival throughout the race to scorch her way for an immediate lead, but could not catch her near the wall by just a small fingertip (0.02 seconds) to finish only with a second-place time and forty-eighth overall in 1:04.28.[5]
References
- 1 2 "Antonella Scanavino". Beijing 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ↑ "Antonella Scanavino". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ↑ "El precio de la gloria: Ex nadador olímpico vende su colección de medallas" [The price of fame: Former Olympic swimmer sold his collection of medals] (in Spanish). Uruguay: El Pais. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ↑ "Scanavino cerca de Beijing" [Scanavino flies to Beijing] (in Spanish). La Red 21. 16 May 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ↑ "Swimming: Women's 100m Butterfly – Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.