Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Costa Rican Swimmers, Claudia Poll, List of Costa Rican Records in Swimming, Silvia Poll Ahrens, Mario Montoya, Marcela Cuesta, Carolina Mauri, Natasha Aguilar, Montserrat Hidalgo. Excerpt: Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens is an Costa Rican Olympic gold-medalist and National Record holding swimming from Costa Rica. To date (2009), she is Costa Rica's only gold-medalist, having won the country first gold (and second) Olympic medal at the 1996 Olympics in the 200 free. Her sister, Silvia, won Costa Rica's first Olympic medal at the 1988 Games. Also as of 2009, Claudia and Silvia are the only Costa Ricans to have won a medal at an Olympics. Claudia also competed at the 2000 Olympics, where she won 2 bronze medals. Claudia Poll began swimming in 1979 under coach Francisco Rivas and quickly became one of the best in Central America, winning many regional titles. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics she won the Gold medal in the 200 m Freestyle event. The win was the first gold medal for Costa Rica in a summer Olympic game. It was a surprising win because she snatched the medal from the favorite Germany's Franziska Van Almsick. Dagmar Hase, also from Germany won the bronze. In 1997, she was named by Swimming World Magazine as the Female Swimmer of the Year. At the Sydney 2000, Poll continued with her medal run and won 2 bronze medals. In Athens 2004, she just missed out on the 400 m Freestyle final, ending up 9th on the time table. At the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, she set the Games Records in the 200We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Swimming in Costa Rica: Costa Rican Swimmers, Claudia Poll, List of Costa Rican Records in Swimming, Silvia Poll Ahrens, Mario Montoya. To get started finding Swimming in Costa Rica: Costa Rican Swimmers, Claudia Poll, List of Costa Rican Records in Swimming, Silvia Poll Ahrens, Mario Montoya, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
30
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1157957552
Swimming in Costa Rica: Costa Rican Swimmers, Claudia Poll, List of Costa Rican Records in Swimming, Silvia Poll Ahrens, Mario Montoya
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Costa Rican Swimmers, Claudia Poll, List of Costa Rican Records in Swimming, Silvia Poll Ahrens, Mario Montoya, Marcela Cuesta, Carolina Mauri, Natasha Aguilar, Montserrat Hidalgo. Excerpt: Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens is an Costa Rican Olympic gold-medalist and National Record holding swimming from Costa Rica. To date (2009), she is Costa Rica's only gold-medalist, having won the country first gold (and second) Olympic medal at the 1996 Olympics in the 200 free. Her sister, Silvia, won Costa Rica's first Olympic medal at the 1988 Games. Also as of 2009, Claudia and Silvia are the only Costa Ricans to have won a medal at an Olympics. Claudia also competed at the 2000 Olympics, where she won 2 bronze medals. Claudia Poll began swimming in 1979 under coach Francisco Rivas and quickly became one of the best in Central America, winning many regional titles. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics she won the Gold medal in the 200 m Freestyle event. The win was the first gold medal for Costa Rica in a summer Olympic game. It was a surprising win because she snatched the medal from the favorite Germany's Franziska Van Almsick. Dagmar Hase, also from Germany won the bronze. In 1997, she was named by Swimming World Magazine as the Female Swimmer of the Year. At the Sydney 2000, Poll continued with her medal run and won 2 bronze medals. In Athens 2004, she just missed out on the 400 m Freestyle final, ending up 9th on the time table. At the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, she set the Games Records in the 200We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Swimming in Costa Rica: Costa Rican Swimmers, Claudia Poll, List of Costa Rican Records in Swimming, Silvia Poll Ahrens, Mario Montoya. To get started finding Swimming in Costa Rica: Costa Rican Swimmers, Claudia Poll, List of Costa Rican Records in Swimming, Silvia Poll Ahrens, Mario Montoya, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.